BOSTON, Dec. 3, 2013—The prisoner accused of shooting a deputy sheriff during a trip to a Boston hospital remains held on $1 million cash bail following his indictment for a litany of violent offenses linked to his alleged escape plot, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

The Suffolk County Grand Jury on Nov. 15 indicted RAYMOND WALLACE (D.O.B. 5/5/77) of Marblehead on charges of escape, aggravated assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, unlawful possession of a firearm as a second offense, unlawful possession of a large-capacity feeding device, unlawfully carrying a loaded firearm, and two counts of assault and battery on a corrections officer. Because of his prior record, Wallace was additionally indicted as an armed career criminal and habitual offender.

Wallace was arraigned on those charges today on the Correctional Unit of the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, the secure medical facility in which he is being treated for gunshot wounds he sustained during the incident earlier this year at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. Granting a request by Assistant District Attorney Lynn Feigenbaum, Suffolk Superior Court Clerk Magistrate Gary Wilson transferred the high bail imposed at his earlier district court arraignment to the new case in Superior Court. He is also being held on unrelated Essex County cases.

Wallace was being held this summer at the Middlesex County Jail while awaiting trial on the Essex charges. On July 31, two deputy Middlesex sheriffs transported him to the hospital for a previously-scheduled appointment. He was shackled in leg irons and his wrists were chained to his waist throughout the appointment.

After the appointment, prosecutors said, Wallace asked to use the bathroom. The deputies unlocked one of his wrists and waited outside the bathroom. While inside, Wallace was able to free himself from all of his restraints and burst out of the bathroom toward the exit, shoving one of the deputies into the wall as he did so.

Both deputies attempted to stop him, leading to a physical struggle during which Wallace allegedly made efforts to take one deputy’s service weapon. The evidence suggests he was able to use that weapon to shoot the deputy in the leg. The second deputy at that time repeatedly ordered Wallace to relinquish the weapon. Prosecutors say Wallace refused to do so, and the second deputy shot him three times.

Wallace is represented by attorney David Grimaldi. His case will return to court on Jan. 24.

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