EKB News

An inmate at the Big Sandy Penitentiary in Inez was indicted today by a federal grand jury on charges that he tried to kill a fellow inmate with a homemade knife, the U.S. Attorney’s office in Lexington said. 25 year old Muhammad Abdul-Rahman of Washington, D.C., allegedly stabbed Terrell Johnson on Oct. 24 last year, the same day another Washington inmate, Calvin L. Speight, was stabbed to death at the same prison. A prison spokeswoman said Thursday that she did not know whether the stabbings were related. The indictment, issued in Lexington, charged Abdul-Rahman with assault with intent to murder, assault with a dangerous weapon and knowingly possessing a prohibited object designed and intended to be used as a weapon. The weapon was described in a news release as a six-inch piece of metal, sharpened to a point. A third Big Sandy inmate, Shamoni Peterson, 32, also of Washington, was stabbed to death on Nov. 13.