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GUNNISON — A man serving up to life in prison for getting into a wild shootout with police is facing new charges accusing him of stabbing an inmate at the prison.
Arturo Gallemore-Jimenez, 41, of Clearfield, was charged last week in 6th District Court with aggravated assault resulting in serious injury, a first-degree felony; and possessing items prohibited in a correctional facility, a second-degree felony.
Gallemore-Jimenez "attacked the victim with a shank, repeatedly stabbing and cutting the victim, including cutting the (victim's) face and eye causing permanent damage to several nerve clusters as well as puncturing the victim's lung," according to charging documents. The incident occured on June 4 at the Central Utah Correctional Facility in Gunnison.
Updated information about the victim was not immediately available.
In 2018, Gallemore-Jimenez pleaded guilty and mentally ill to attempted aggravated murder and was sentenced to up to life in the Utah State Prison. He was convicted for being involved in a wild shootout with police on I-15 in Utah County in December of 2017 during which more than 75 shots were fired. No officers were injured, but a 21-year-old Provo man parked off the side of the freeway putting gas in his vehicle — about 1,600 feet in front of the shootout — was hit in the shoulder either by an errant shot or by a fragment that ricocheted. His injuries were not life-threatening.
Prior to that incident, Gallemore-Jimenez shot a man in Colorado and left him for dead, according to police.
He was recently charged with assault, a third-degree felony, for another incident at the Central Utah Correctional Facility in March, court records state. That case was still pending as of Tuesday.
