WASHINGTON — An inmate at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility has been charged with attempted murder after police say he violently attacked a correctional officer early Sunday morning.
During the Sunday morning breakfast time around 5 a.m., 26-year-old Edgar Alfonso Borrera assaulted a correctional officer in front of the cells in the Montgomery County Correctional Facility, located in Boyds, Maryland. The inmate repeatedly punched and struck the officer in his face and upper body, according to Montgomery County police.
“[It was] a very, very violent assault against our staff member,” said Department of Corrections Director Robert Green.
During the assault, Borrera used a handmade weapon of hard plastic and a milk carton handle, Green said. The facility’s officers and police are investigating how Borrera made the weapon.
The assault ended when another inmate and other correctional officers intervened, police said.
Emergency crews transported the correctional officer, a 17-year veteran of MCCF, to a hospital with multiple injuries including fractured bones in his face and lacerations to his forehead, police said. The officer has non-life-threatening injuries and is improving at the hospital Monday, Green said.
“He’s just an incredibly talented correctional officer, very good at what he does,” Green said. “We are all just keeping him in our thoughts and prayers and making sure we are there for him and his family as he endures what is going to be a long recovery.”
The assault highlights the difficult work that correctional officers do, Green said.
“It’s dangerous work; it’s work that puts them in danger, and as much as we try and hope every day, we try to keep them safe and keep everyone under our custody safe, these things happen,” he said.
Borrera has been charged with attempted first-degree murder, first-degree assault and second-degree assault of a correctional officer.
Borrera had been incarcerated since April 10, 2018, on unrelated charges of trespassing, resisting arrest and possession of a dangerous weapon.
MCCF has more than 600 inmates at its facility.
