One year into his life sentence for murder, Awet Asfaha was attacked by another inmate in the prison gymnasium, his face sliced from neck to jaw with a homemade weapon, Asfaha’s “faint hope” hearing for early parole has been told.
“I have never seen so much blood,” veteran corrections officer Michael Loepp testified, recalling that frantic day in 2013. Loepp gave Asfaha emergency first aid, and he was airlifted to the hospital. Both Asfaha and the other inmate had homemade knives. What the dispute was about, the court was not told.
