Death Row Inmate Attacks Guard 8/18/04 WBAP.com
HOUSTON (AP) - A Texas death row inmate stabbed a guard 13 times with a sharpened metal rod believed taken from a typewriter the prisoner had used.
The attack by Jorge Salinas happened Monday night as the inmate was being escorted back to his cell.
Salinas is on death row for a deadly carjacking in Hidalgo County.
Spokeswoman Michelle Lyons says the guard is expected to recover.
Salinas wasn't injured, but he's now in a higher level of custody and has lost his privileges to use items such as a typewriter and radio.
Salinas was condemned for the 2001 deaths of Geronimo Morales and his daughter -- 21-month-old Leslie Ann Morales.
The toddler had been removed from the car and was found dead -- from dehydration and exposure -- in her car seat at a park near the Rio Grande.
Her father's body was later found in a citrus grove.
The vehicle turned up in Reynosa, Mexico.