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Inmate Indicted on First Degree Murder Charges
By knsiradio.com- Jennifer Lewerenz
Published: 08/16/2018

(AP) - An inmate accused of killing a guard at the Stillwater prison last month has been indicted on first-degree murder charges.

A grand jury in Washington County returned the indictment against Edward Muhammad Johnson on charges of first-degree premediated murder and first-degree murder of a prison guard. Department of Corrections Officer Joseph Gomm died after he was attacked with a hammer at the prison on July 18.

The 42-year-old inmate was previously charged with second-degree murder and assault. According to the charges, Johnson struck officer Gomm repeatedly in the head and face with a hammer that he checked out from an industrial workshop on the third floor of the correctional facility.

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