{"id":349047,"date":"2015-04-30T14:59:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T19:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=349047"},"modified":"2015-05-01T14:59:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T19:59:03","slug":"officials-gregg-county-inmate-could-lose-eye-after-jail-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=349047","title":{"rendered":"Officials: Gregg County Inmate Could Lose Eye after Jail Assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/04\/bfc42ce6ae396772fcbe43ffe4929090.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/04\/bfc42ce6ae396772fcbe43ffe4929090-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"bfc42ce6ae396772fcbe43ffe4929090\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-349048\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW &#8212; An unprovoked attack in the Gregg County Jail last week has resulted in one inmate possibly losing an eye and the other facing felony assault charges, according to documents signed Wednesday. KETK and the Longview News-Journal report Brandon Eugene Washington, 32, of Longview, has been charged with aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury. Bond for Washington was set at $75,000.  According to the arrest report, witnesses said shortly after 9 p.m. April 20, Washington started acting aggressively toward other inmates in the cell. Washington then approached the victim and struck him in the left eye, continuing to hit the victim in the head and face, according to a complaint. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Initially the victim told officers the injury was caused by falling down, but he later said Washington had assaulted him without provocation. The victim told investigators he believed Washington was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153agitated\u00e2\u20ac\u009d because he was not granted a transfer request to another cell.  Washington told investigators he was asleep at the time of the attack. When officers pointed out a red mark on Washington\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cheek, he claimed it was a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pressure mark\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that must have occurred while he slept.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was given medical attention from jail nursing staff the following morning \u00e2\u20ac\u201d once the assault was reported \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and then transported to Good Shepherd Medical Center after medical staff determined fluid in his eye was leaking from the eyeball itself.   A post-surgical evaluation determined the victim had suffered a traumatic scleral rupture and would lose most, if not all, of the vision in his left eye. Doctors recommended possibly removing the eyeball if the condition does not improve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; An unprovoked attack in the Gregg County Jail last week has resulted in one inmate possibly losing an eye and the other facing felony assault charges, according to documents signed Wednesday. KETK and the Longview News-Journal report Brandon Eugene Washington, 32, of Longview, has been charged with aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=349047\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Officials: Gregg County Inmate Could Lose Eye after Jail Assault<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 04:49:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=349047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349049,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349047\/revisions\/349049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}