BILLINGS, Mont. — Two Montana inmates were charged with attempted murder Tuesday after they allegedly used improvised weapons to attack corrections officers at a county jail, sending one of the officers to the hospital with stab wounds to the head.
The two inmates pleaded not guilty during court hearings via video from the Yellowstone County Jail.
The two officers were the targets of an unprovoked attack Saturday evening, Sheriff Mike Linder said. The attack was captured on security cameras, but Linder refused to release the footage.
During Tuesday’s hearing, Prosecutor Hojae Chung of the Yellowstone County Prosecutor’s Office said one of the inmates used a makeshift knife to repeatedly stab one of the officers in the back of the head, causing severe bleeding. That officer was treated at a hospital and released later that evening and is expected to make a full recovery, the sheriff said.
Judge Bradley Kneeland set bond Tuesday at $1 million for Myron Scott Goes Ahead, 20, and $500,000 for Ashtin Zant Glen, 18. The two inmates face additional weapons charges. They could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted of attempted murder
Goes Ahead was held in jail awaiting trial on two counts of murder a shooting last year in Billings killing a man who then fell on a boy who also died. Goes Ahead and another person were accused of stealing ammunition from a sporting goods store and then shooting a hail of bullets into the house together with the victims. The boy, who was almost a year old, suffocated after the man carrying him was shot and fell on top of him, authorities said.
Glen was held on charges including attempted murder. Authorities say he is accused of shooting and wounding a man during a shootout last year and later shooting at officers as he fled the scene.