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REVISED W/MUGSHOT Shelby County Sheriff's Office jailer assaulted by inmate

A jailer at the Shelby County Jail was attacked by an inmate during a struggle incident in the process of being booked-in Sunday afternoon.

 

Sheriff Willis Blackwell says Jailer Randy Dickerson was assaulted by 29-year old Marquel Ealy of Shelbyville, who was originally arrested for public intoxication.

 

Sheriff Blackwell said Timpson Police Department officer Thomas Jernigan brought Ealy in around 3 p.m. when he became belligerent and combative with Dickerson and Jailer Jericka Moore. Ealy was ordered to a holding cell when he ran to another door and started beating on it.

 

The sheriff said that’s when the struggle issued with Dickerson receiving abrasions to his facial area causing injury.

 

Deputy Bradley Horton responded when dispatched to the jail for assistance.

 

Ealy was subdued and charged with Assault on a Public Servant, a Felony 3.

 

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