WACO, Texas (KWTX) - A parolee in the McLennan County Jail faces additional charges after county officials say he assaulted another inmate earlier this month.

Sheriff’s office investigators charged James Earl Carter, 33, with second-degree felony aggravated assault Tuesday in an Aug. 19 altercation with fellow inmate Ricky Lee Hall Jr., 39.

According to arrest documents, Carter can be seen on video wrapping his arms around Hall and picking him up off the ground when Hall tried to walk away from him. Carter slammed Hall on the floor, causing Hall’s head to hit the “concrete floor with such force that it made a large knot (hematoma) on the back of Hall’s head,” an arrest affidavit alleges.

Hall told jailers he didn’t lose consciousness, but the video shows Hall’s arms and legs “go stif

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