NATCHEZ — An Adams County inmate has been charged with attempted murder after he reportedly sharpened a metal mop bucket handle and repeatedly stabbed another inmate.

Adams County Sheriff’s Office Maj. Jerry Brown said Alonzo Hoye, 40, needed 38 staples in multiple parts of his body after Michael Liquint Johnson, 43, reportedly attacked Hoye Wednesday night.

Hoye suffered stab wounds in his arms, face, hands and other areas of his body.

Brown said Johnson went into Hoye’s cell and out of view of security cameras reportedly stabbed Hoye.

The incident occurred while the inmates’ cells were unlocked during a time when inmates are permitted to move about the cell block, Brown said.

Another inmate broke up the fight, and Hoye began kicking the bars of his cell to signal that he was injured.

Jailers place mop buckets inside the cell blocks so inmates can clean, and the buckets are removed at the end of the night.

Brown said it appeared that Johnson removed the metal rod handle of a bucket and sharpened it, likely on concrete.

Brown said ACSO conducted an investigation of the incident and interviewed inmates, some of whom reportedly said Johnson and Hoye had an argument about a dominoes game that occurred before they were put in jail.

Johnson is now in solitary confinement at the jail.

He was arrested in September 2016 during a series of arrests during which Johnson and three other men were arrested and ACSO seized drugs, weapons, vehicles and rescued pit-bull dogs after an investigation into alleged drug and dogfighting crimes.

Hoye has been in the Adams County Jail since June 2016 for two armed robbery charges and an attempted escape charge.