Crime & Safety
Convicted Murderer Charged with Stabbing Fellow Inmates at Cheshire Correctional Institution
The man allegedly used a sharpened toothbrush to stab the inmates in the neck and stomach.

An inmate serving a 45-year sentence for murder at the Cheshire Correctional Institution faces new charges for allegedly stabbing fellow inmates with a sharpened toothbrush, according to the Meriden Record-Journal.
The Record-Journal reports Marvin Salmon, 42, who was sentenced to prison in 2000 for murdering a man in Hartford in 1994, is accused of stabbing one inmate in the throat and another in the stomach in a June incident.
The victims were both hospitalized and have since recovered, according to the Record-Journal.
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