By Rodrigo Torrejón and Samantha Melamed, The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)

PHILADELPHIA — Miles Pfeffer, the man accused of shooting and killed Temple University police officer Christopher Fitzgerald in 2023, was stabbed multiple times in the Curran Fromhold Correctional Facility, where he was held while awaiting trial for murder.

Around 6:40 p.m. Thursday, another incarcerated man, Rafael Venegas, ran out of his cell and attacked Pfeffer, 19, with a homemade weapon, according to the jail’s incident report. Pfeffer suffered puncture wounds to his forehead, inner right hip and right hand, according to the report.

After Venegas refused orders to stop, a correctional officer pepper-sprayed him and he and Pfeffer were separated, according to the report. Pfeffer was then taken to Jefferson Torresdale Hospital for a medical evaluation, according to the report. A police source said his injuries were not life-threatening.

Pfeffer’s parents and a spokesperson for the city Department of Corrections could not immediately be reached Friday for comment.

Pfeffer faces murder and felony charges related to Fitzgerald’s shooting.

On the night of February 18, 2023, authorities said: Pfeffer shot Fitzgerald, 31, several times. on his face and chest at close range after the officer spotted Pfeffer and two others wearing masks and dressed in black near the Temple campus.

There have been recent carjackings and robberies in the area, and Fitzgerald said on the radio that he was going to arrest a pedestrian, police said. When Fitzgerald approached Pfeffer, he, then 18, ran away, while Fitzgerald chased him, police said.

The two men got into a physical fight, police said, and Pfeffer pulled out a gun and shot Fitzgerald. Pfeffer, who was a high school student at the time, then stood on top of Fitzgerald and shot him several times at point-blank range, killing him, police said.

Pfeffer then stole a man’s car at gunpoint and drove to that of his mother home in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, where he was arrested hours later, police said.

Since Pfeffer’s arrest, Fitzgerald’s family repeatedly asked Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner to pursue the death penalty. for Pfeffer.

“What we would like to see is this person go through the pain that our son went through, go through the pain that our family goes through,” Joel Fitzgerald, a former Philadelphia police officer, said of Pfeffer after a trial . audience last year.

In July, Krasner’s office announced it would not pursue the death penalty, upsetting the Fitzgerald family and their supporters.