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FERRIDAY, La. — A Concordia Parish inmate has been charged with the stabbing of two other inmates who were being admitted into the same dorm, parish officials confirmed.

Jhumarcus Chatman, 26, faces a second-degree battery charge related to the incident on Tuesday.

Concordia Parish Sheriff’s Office Public Information Director said he and other inmates in the dorm began fighting with two new inmates after one of them had started the fight.

It is unclear how many were involved but only Chatman was charged as he stabbed the two inmates with a small object. What the weapon was is unconfirmed but neither of the inmates were hurt badly, she said.

“They were admitted into the hospital but neither received stitches and both came back the same day,” Spears said.

According to a news release from the Caddo Parish District Attorney James E. Stewart Sr., Chatman is from Shreveport and had been sentenced to 15 years in prison on weapon and drug charges on Feb. 6, 2023.

He pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute marijuana and to possession of a firearm or carrying a concealed weapon by a convicted felon before District Judge Erin Leigh Waddell Garrett.

On Nov. 10, 2021, members of the Shreveport Police Department’s Violent Crimes Abatement Team, or VCAT, investigated a complaint of narcotics activity in the 100 block of Hamilton Street, where they observed an illegally parked Chevrolet Malibu. When the driver, Chatman, exited the vehicle, he said the car didn’t belong to him but nervously distanced himself from the vehicle, the release states. While conducting a visual inspection of the vehicle, police saw a baggie of what appeared to be marijuana on the front passenger seat next to an assault-style pistol. They later found the car had been reported stolen. Chatman was arrested and the keys to the stolen car were found in his front left pocket.

Police also found a second bag of marijuana, a glass jar containing marijuana, digital scales and packaging material. Once in custody, Chatman admitted the marijuana was his for personal use but denied owning the weapon recovered from the vehicle.

After pleading, Chatman immediately was sentenced by Judge Garrett to 10 years’ hard labor for the drug possession conviction and to 15 years at hard labor without without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence, and a $1,000 fine, for the weapons possession conviction. The fine was converted to 400 days in prison in lieu of costs.

The court ordered the sentences to run concurrently with each other, but consecutive to any other sentence he may be serving.

Chatman was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Ross Owen and defended by Hillary Hileman.