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   Edward Muhammad Johnson   
      
   STILLWATER, Minn. – A convicted killer beat a Minnesota prison guard to   
   death with a hammer he checked out of the prison shop and stabbed him with a   
   homemade knife during an attack last month, prosecutors alleged Thursday.   
      
   Prosecutors charged Edward Muhammad Johnson, 42, in Washington County court   
   with second-degree murder and second-degree assault. He is scheduled to appear   
   in court Friday.   
      
   Johnson is accused of fatally beating 45-year-old Officer Joseph Gomm with a   
   hammer on July 18 at a state prison in Stillwater.   
      
   The attack happened in an industrial building housing the vocational programs   
   at the state's flagship prison. A bloody hammer was found on the floor near   
   the fatally injured Gomm, the complaint said.   
      
   Johnson also is accused of swinging the hammer at a corrections employee who   
   is a prison shop foreman. The foreman told investigators an inmate approached   
   him and said Gomm needed help. The foreman went into the shop and saw Johnson   
   hitting Gomm in the    
   head with a hammer, and retreated when Johnson swung the hammer at him, the   
   complaint said. Johnson then shut the shop door and barricaded it, according   
   to the complaint.   
      
   Several inmates saw a shirtless Johnson running around the shop and telling   
   them, "You guys are fine," which apparently meant he did not intend to hurt   
   them, the complaint said. After finding the shop door barricaded, correctional   
   officers entered    
   through a different door and saw Johnson, who surrendered. Correctional   
   officers told investigators that inmates often will remove their shirts when   
   they are involved in a fight.   
      
   Besides the hammer, investigators also found two homemade knives, one or both   
   of which was used to stab Gomm, who suffered two puncture wounds to his chest,   
   the complaint said.   
      
   Johnson was serving a 29-year sentence for fatally stabbing his roommate in   
   2002. Gomm, who had just marked 16 years as a correctional officer, is   
   believed to be the first Minnesota correctional officer killed while on duty.   
   His funeral last week drew    
   thousands of law enforcement officers.   
      
   Following Gomm's death, union leaders representing Minnesota corrections   
   workers called for more prison officers.   
      
   More than 1,600 inmates are housed at the century-old Stillwater prison. About   
   a third of the prisoners are serving time for homicide.   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/us/minnesota-inmate-charged-with-murder-   
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