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SALT LAKE CITY — A prisoner who allegedly stabbed his new cellmate with a shank was charged Monday with aggravated assault by a prisoner, a second-degree felony.
Khalid Mohamud, 20, was a prisoner at the Utah State Prison on Sept. 1, when he fashioned "homemade body armor" out of magazines wrapped around his torso, according to charges filed in 3rd District Court. Mohamud approached a man who was in the process of moving into Mohamud's cell and stabbed the man's neck and scalp, charges state.
Mohamud has previously been convicted of assault, damaging a jail and burglary.
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