5-31-19 waupun prison inmate charged with attacking correctional officers

A Waupun prison inmate has been charged with attacking a correctional officer this month who attempted to take the designer sunglasses the inmate was wearing.  Twenty seven year old David Byrd faces charges of strangulation and suffocation.  According to a criminal complaint on May 3 Byrd entered the health service unit at the prison after getting into a fight with another inmate and the correctional officer took Byrd’s sunglasses.  Byrd allegedly struck the sunglasses out of the officer’s hand, attempted to strike the officer and put his hands around another officer’s neck.  The two officers  were taken to Waupun Memorial Hospital for injuries. Byrd is serving a life sentence for first degree intentional homicide out of Milwaukee County.