Raven C. Gomez (Allen County Kansas Sheriff’s Office)
A week after allegedly assaulting an officer in Missouri, a 26-year-old woman is accused of attacking a fellow inmate while in custody with a meal tray, holding onto her hair and using her broken glasses as a weapon in an assault thwarted by quick-thinking jailers, authorities said.
Raven C. Gomez is accused of attempted murder in the first degree, aggravated battery, and criminal damage to property, the Allen County Kansas Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
She and her boyfriend, Brandon David, were arrested on Oct. 18 at a home southeast of Moran following an assault a day earlier on a Jasper, Missouri, officer, authorities said.
Gomez, who was in custody at the Allen County Jail since her arrest on Wednesday, allegedly assaulted another female inmate during their noon time meal period, officials said.
“The attack caused the inmate to fall to the floor, and her eyeglasses were broken, possibly by Gomez stepping on them,” deputies said in the news release. “Holding on to the other woman’s hair, Gomez used a piece of the broken glasses as a weapon and struck her in the face, neck, head, and body, but was not fatally injured.”
Gomez told a deputy she intended to kill the other inmate, officials said.
Gomez had been arrested in connection with an attack on a cop on Monday night. The officer was attacked while responding to the couple fighting.
During a pat down, Gomez allegedly punched the officer in the face and pushed her to the ground. Her boyfriend allegedly also punched the officer in a “haymaker” fashion before trying and failing to get away in the officer’s patrol car, Springfield, Missouri’s NBC affiliate KYTV reported.
Police Chief Chad Karr told The Joplin Globe the sergeant was punched in the face and injured when her feet were run over by the assailants’ fleeing vehicle.
“Her face is bruised, and her foot is sprained,” Karr said, the paper reported. “The suspects drove over the top of her foot twice when they ran away.”
Police quickly identified the pair and tracked them to David’s parents’ house. Karr said David was on parole and had a conviction for attacking a corrections officer.
Allen County Sheriff Bryan Murphy told The Globe that the two were hiding in a bus on David’s parent’s property and eventually surrendered.
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