{"id":364773,"date":"2015-06-16T02:40:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T07:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=364773"},"modified":"2015-06-17T02:05:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T07:05:03","slug":"gregg-county-jail-inmate-indicted-for-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=364773","title":{"rendered":"Gregg County Jail Inmate Indicted for Assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/06\/Brandon-Euguene-Washington.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/06\/Brandon-Euguene-Washington-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Brandon Euguene Washington\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-364774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/06\/Brandon-Euguene-Washington-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/06\/Brandon-Euguene-Washington-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/06\/Brandon-Euguene-Washington-450x448.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/06\/Brandon-Euguene-Washington.jpg 944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW &#8212; A Gregg County Jail inmate has been indicted on an aggravated assault charge arising from an April 20 attack on other inmates. Brandon Euguene Washington, 31, of Longview was in jail on a misdemeanor theft warrant and two unpaid traffic tickets. 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. He is being held in jail under a $75,000 bond.<!--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, once the assault was reported, 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 improv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; A Gregg County Jail inmate has been indicted on an aggravated assault charge arising from an April 20 attack on other inmates. Brandon Euguene Washington, 31, of Longview was in jail on a misdemeanor theft warrant and two unpaid traffic tickets. According to the arrest report, witnesses said shortly after 9 p.m. April &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=364773\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gregg County Jail Inmate Indicted for Assault<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":364774,"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-364773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 23:07:27","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\/364773","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=364773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364785,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364773\/revisions\/364785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/364774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}