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Harrah’s crime suspect of stabbing in prison fight Crime and courts

Harrah’s crime suspect of stabbing in prison fight Crime and courts

A Harrah man accused of stabbing a man to death is now accused of stabbing a colleague prisoned.

The 24-year-old Jerid Joe Winter has been ordered to hold a additional $ 250,000 bail about the attack on February 4 in a fourth floor unit in the Yakima County Prison.

The correction officers entered the home unit to allow detainees of four cells to have time outside their cells around 9:55, when an officer saw them fighting. Two of the detainees were quickly removed from the fight, but Winters and another prisoner had to be physically separated by the officers, and the prisoner said he was injured, according to a probable statement filed by the Yakima County Sheriff.

The detainee had a cut along the abdomen, and the correction officers found an improvised knife made from a razor blade, the statement said. The detainee was taken to the Yakima Multicare Memorial Hospital, where he was treated for his injury.

The video from the unit showed that when Winters and the other held, waiting for the second -degree attack, criminal harassment and illegal holding of a 1st firearm, came out of their cells, Winters removed an object from his straps and made stabbed movements to the other prisoner.

Winters faces a possible accusation of assault on the first degree in the case of prison.

During a Monday hearing, at the upper yard of Yakima County, winters appeared wearing handcuffs and a striped prison uniform, which means it was in a disciplinary unit. The deputy lawyer of Yakima County, Rogeli Batarao Jr., has requested a bail of $ 500,000, mentioning that he is already facing an accusation of murder.

Konrad Beattie, a public defender representing winters for the preliminary appearance, said that $ 500,000 would be excessive, considering how long the winters were in prison and his current bail of $ 250,000.

Winters was imprisoned in December 2022, under the second degree murder charge, according to prison records.

“I think if it will do a cause, it would probably have already had,” Beattie said, recommending $ 100,000.

Judge Shane Silverthorn said that, on the basis of Winters’ criminal history and the fact that he was accused, there is a strong probability, he would be violent if he had released, and he would have put the bail for $ 250,000 in the case of crime.

Winters is charged with the second degree murder in The death of Julius Kurt Hill II During what was described in the judicial documents as a fight at a house in the 200 Street Block in White Swan on October 7, 2022.

The deputies of the sheriff in Yakima County and the Tribal Police Yakama Nation went home and found Hill, 38, with several stabbed wounds, from which he died despite the first aid efforts of the tribe deputies and officers.

Witnesses on the spot said that a group of people, including Winters, came to the house and accused them of stole a mobile phone and other properties, according to a probable statement filed by the sheriff’s office. The group entered the uninvited house and a fight took place, the judicial documents said.

During the fight, the witnesses said, Winters stabbed Hill repeatedly, as well as a woman in the foot accidentally stabbed, said the statement.