Larry Nassar, a former sports doctor who is currently serving a multiple-decade prison sentence for sexually abusing female gymnasts while working with USA Gymnastics, was stabbed by another inmate in an altercation at a federal prison in Florida on Monday. According to the Associated Press, the prisoner that was suspected of stabbing Nassar has revealed that the former doctor made a lewd comment while the two were watching a Wimbledon tennis match on television.
The inmate, who has been identified as Shane McMillan, later stabbed Nassar with a makeshift weapon in his cell at the United States Penitentiary Coleman. McMillan allegedly stabbed Nassar multiple times in the back, chest, and neck before other inmates pulled McMillan off of Nassar.
The AP also reported that McMillan, 49, was convicted of assaulting a correctional officer at a federal prison in Louisiana back in 2006, as well as attempting to stab another inmate at a federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado in 2011, according to court records.
Following the altercation, correctional officers at the facility made their way to Nassar’s cell and performed life-saving measures on the 59-year old. Nassar was taken to the hospital, where he’s…
