{"id":99737,"date":"2026-01-14T06:14:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/99737\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T06:14:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:14:30","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-rikers-island-inmate-indicted-for-slashing-correction-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/99737\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Rikers Island inmate indicted for slashing Correction Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An inmate on Rikers Island has been indicted for slashing a correction officer.<\/p>\n<p>Shemar Hassani-Shaw, 24, of Brooklyn was arraigned on Monday at the Bronx Supreme Court. According to the investigation, Hassani-Shaw approached a correction officer from behind and slashed him across the cheek. The incident happened on Dec. 3 inside the Otis Bantum Correctional Center. A sharp metal object and a sharpened piece of plastic were recovered at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the attack was unprovoked and was captured on video surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>Hassani-Shaw is facing charges including attempted assault, promoting prison contraband and criminal possession of a weapon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An inmate on Rikers Island has been indicted for slashing a correction officer. Shemar Hassani-Shaw, 24, of Brooklyn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[211,357,98,100,99,397,19998,9,24,63,1083],"class_list":{"0":"post-99737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-assault","9":"tag-assaults","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","12":"tag-brooklyn-news","13":"tag-indictment","14":"tag-inmates","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-rikers-island"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}