HAMLET OF WALLKILL – A convicted murderer serving 30 years to life, attacked a correction officer on July 8 at Shawangunk Correctional Facility, breaking his cheekbone and cutting his ear at the maximum security prison, the union representing prison guards said Wednesday.
A New York State Corrections Officers Police Benevolent Association spokesman
said the incident occurred around 9:40 p.m. while the officer was working
in a housing unit.
The inmate, Robert Blount, 39, stepped onto a stoop where the officer
was standing. The officer ordered him off the stoop but he refused to
comply. After the officer ordered Blount a second time, the inmate
struck the guard three times. Another officer responded to the scene
and both grabbed the inmate in body holds and took him to the ground.
Blount was removed from the housing unit and placed in a special housing unit.
The officer was transported to St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital in Newburgh where he was treated for a fractured left cheekbone and received stitches to his ear. He was treated and released.
Blount is serving a 30 year to life sentence for a double homicide in Queens in 1998.
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