As Deputy Lillian Jimenez was being choked with the pillowcase, some inmates at a Hillsborough County, Fla., jail intervened, surveillance video shows.
Now, the two inmates accused of orchestrating the June 7 attack, 42-year-old Bridgette Harvey and 37-year-old April Colvin, are facing charges related to escape. Harvey, the one accused of attempting to choke Jimenez, is facing additional counts of aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer and introduction of contraband into a detention facility — a charge stemming from a shank investigators said she fashioned out of a chewed comb.
So in the early hours of June 7, as Jimenez stood by the restroom’s doorway, Harvey came up behind her — quickly wrapping a twisted pillowcase around the guard’s neck, according to the arrest report. Harvey was also carrying a sharpened comb in her hand, the report alleges, but it fell to the ground as she and the deputyAnother woman walking across the hall noticed the situation and dashed into the bathroom, surveillance video shows. Soon, over a dozen more followed her inside.
The inmates who sprang into action have received an outpouring of accolades after the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office posted a video of the incident.. “May your courage and bravery be noticed.” One of the inmates who intervened was Mary Jean, who also rescued another deputy during an attack five months ago,. Though left with a broken hand after the recent incident, Jean was recognized with a pizza party and Coca-Cola, her attorney, Denitsa Kolev, told the outlet.
“She had no reason to do this, to jump in and save a deputy while she’s an inmate,” Kolev told Fox13. “It shows she really is a good person.”
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