(WKYT) – A New York man being held at a Kentucky federal prison was convicted of attempted murder on Wednesday after a two-day trial in London.
According to a news release, in 2019, Mufid Elfgeeh, 42, requested a private cell at United States Penitentiary McCreary.
When the United States Bureau of Prisons did not comply with his request, Elfgeeh stabbed his cellmate over 30 times with an improvised weapon.
Elfgeeh did not comply with prison personnel’s order to stop the attack and continued it through three rounds of pepper spray, vapor grenades, being struck by a foam baton, pepper balls and hornet nest munitions.
He was finally subdued after staff outfitted with protective gear breached the cell, removed the weapon and restrained him.
Elfgeeh faces a maximum of 20 years in prison and will be sentenced on Sept. 1.
He was previously sentenced in 2016 to 270 months in federal prison for attempting to provide support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.