RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina sheriff has fired two deputies accused of assaulting a jail inmate.
Wake County Sheriff's spokesman Eric Curry said in a news release Wednesday that Sheriff Gerald Baker dismissed 39-year-old Terek Askew and 43-year-old Donnie Davis. The News & Observer reports they are the second and third county corrections officers removed this month.
(Terek Askew, Donnie Davis)
Court records said 29-year-old inmate Leonardo Antonio Romero was assaulted Aug. 3. Romero had been charged that day with malicious conduct by a prisoner and assault on a government official.
Askew and Davis are accused of attacking Romero and face assault charges. The release didn't detail Romero's injuries.
The sheriff's office previously said that another corrections officer, Marcus Hinnant, was charged with an unrelated assault and fired from his detention center job on Sept. 15.
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