CORCORAN – California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials are investigating an attack on a peace officer at California State Prison, Corcoran (COR), as an attempted homicide. On Sept. 3, 2024, at approximately 4:10 p.m., incarcerated person Bobby Dominguez allegedly reached through the bars of a shower door and attacked a correctional officer.

Staff immediately responded to assist the officer from the area, medical personnel were summoned, and 911 was activated. At 4:43 p.m., the officer was transported to an outside medical facility, where he was treated and released that evening.  An inmate-manufactured weapon was found at the scene.

Dominguez was subsequently transferred to the California Health Care Facility. CDCR officials are currently investigating the incident. The case will be referred to the Kings County District Attorney’s Office for possible felony prosecution. Peer support services are being offered to employees.

Dominguez, 30, was most recently received from Monterey County on June 20, 2023, sentenced to six years for assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer as a second striker.

Dominguez was initially received from Los Angeles County on Apr. 11, 2014, and sentenced to four years for inflicting corporal injury on a cohabitant. While incarcerated, he was convicted on June 23, 2016, to five years for an in-prison offense of assault with a deadly weapon or force to cause great bodily injury by an incarcerated person. In addition, he was sentenced on June 21, 2017, to one year for an in-prison offense of battery on a non-prisoner.

Activated in 1988, COR houses approximately 2,500 minimum-, medium-, high-, and maximum-security incarcerated people. The prison provides the incarcerated population with work, vocational, academic, educational, self-help, religious, and other rehabilitative programs, has a fully licensed correctional treatment center, and employs approximately 2,100 people.