AUBURN, N.Y. – The Cayuga County Sheriff’s Office have shared a video which shows a deputy with the Cayuga County Sheriff’s Office Custody Division being assaulted by an inmate.

The sheriff’s office says on May 7 at around 9:15 a.m., Deputy William Ruff was doing rounds around the jail when he was he was suddenly attacked and assaulted by an inmate, 39-year-old Harold Calkins.

The sheriff’s office says Calkins used “makeshift contraband weapons,” from things in the jail that were illegal and slashed and stabbed Deputy Ruff in the head and neck after spraying a substance at his eyes.

Deputy Ruff suffered injuries that resulted in immediate medical attention at a local hospital and ongoing treatment.

Calkins was indicted by a Cayuga County Grand Jury for two counts of assault in the second-degree and was remanded to the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision of New York State.

According to the sheriff’s office, at the time of the assault, Calkins was being held in the Cayuga County Jail for violations of his NYS Parole and criminal possession of stolen property in the third-degree.

Here are photos of the weapons the sheriff office’s says Calkins used: