Inmate accused of slashing officers
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ST. FRANCISVILLE — A Louisiana State Penitentiary inmate allegedly slashed two security officers with a prison-made knife Saturday in Angola’s Camp D, West Feliciana Parish Sheriff J. Austin Daniel said.
Karsten Keelen, 37, formerly from Baton Rouge, will be booked at the West Feliciana Parish Jail on two counts of attempted first-degree murder, the sheriff said.
Keelen, serving a life sentence for second-degree murder from East Baton Rouge Parish, already is facing an aggravated battery count for an October 2006 razor-blade attack on an officer.
Detective Capt. Spence Dilworth said a security officer took Keelen out of his extended-lockdown cell to get him a haircut in the lobby, but Keelen, who is small in stature, slipped out of his restraints and attacked the officer.
The officer was cut on his forearms, ear and rib cage, but the wounds were not considered life-threatening, Dilworth said. A second officer who came to his assistance also was cut on his finger, Dilworth said.
Keelen, injured when officers subdued him, was taken to the prison hospital.
Keelen was convicted in April 1996 in the shooting death of 28-year-old Melford Robinson, a few hours after the men got into a fight.
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