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Stillwater Inmate Pleads Guilty To Murdering Corrections Officer Joseph Gomm
At a pre-trial hearing, Johnson pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the July 2018 beating in which he attacked Gomm with a hammer.
By WCCO-TV
October 9, 2020
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Edward Johnson, an inmate at the Stillwater prison, pleaded guilty Thursday morning to murdering corrections officer Joseph Gomm in 2018.
At a pre-trial hearing, Johnson pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the July 2018 beating in which he attacked Gomm with a hammer in the prison workshop. Gomm, 45, died at the scene; he was not armed.
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On Friday morning while under oath, Johnson admitted he checked out a hammer and struck Gomm two times, with the intent of killing him.
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