GREENSVILLE COUNTY, Va. -- Two Greensville Correctional Center officers have been released from the hospital after they were stabbed by an inmate on Tuesday, sources told CBS 6 investigative reporter Laura French. Those sources told French the inmate allegedly involved in the most recent stabbing is the same person suspected in the April slaying of K9 officer Rivan.
The Belgian Malinois was killed in the line of duty "heroically protecting" his assigned Correction Officer, staff, and other inmates at Sussex I State Prison, according to the Virginia Department of Corrections.
Officials with the VADOC confirmed late Wednesday that the attack happened Tuesday at 2:35 p.m. as the officers were transporting 26-year-old Axel Wilfredo Ortiz Garcia to a hospital for treatment.
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According to French's sources, one of the victims in the most recent stabbing was an officer-in-training. The sources added that typically an officer-in-training would not permitted to move inmates.
Officials later confirmed that both officers had been discharged from the hospital.
Ortiz Garcia was being temporarily detained at Greensville Correctional Center following a court order after the violent attack in April at Sussex I State Prison.
"Due to his maximum-security status, the VADOC had been seeking a reconsideration of that ruling," officials wrote.
VADOC officials said that their investigation into the latest attack is ongoing.
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