Report: Derek Chauvin Stabbed 22 Times by Former FBI Informant

Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis PD officer serving time in prison for the death of George Floyd, was stabbed 22 times by a fellow inmate who at one time served as an FBI informant.

The new details of the stabbing came in a charging document obtained by media outlets on Friday accusing 52-year-old inmate John Turscak of knifing Chauvin while in the law library of a federal prison in Tucson last week using an “improvised knife.”

According to the document, Turscak “attacked D.C. [Derek Chauvin] with an improvised knife, stabbing D.C. approximately 22 times, causing serious bodily injury.”

“Federal corrections officers immediately responded to the assault and deployed OC spray to subdue Turscak,” the federal complaint adds. “Turscak told the corrections officers that he would have killed D.C. had they not responded so quickly.”

Additionally, the report adds Turscak “stated that his attack on D.C. on Black Friday was symbolic with the Black Lives Matter movement and the ‘Black Hand’ symbol associated with the Mexican Mafia criminal organization.”

An ABC News report on Friday also threw in an interesting tidbit about Turscak in its opening paragraph:

“An incarcerated former gang member and FBI informant was charged Friday with attempted murder in the stabbing last week of ex-Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin at a federal prison in Arizona.”

The Los Angeles Times covered Turscak’s stint as an FBI informant in a Nov. 2001 article:

A former Mexican Mafia member who admitted carrying out a number of crimes while working as an undercover FBI informant was sentenced Monday in Los Angeles federal court to 30 years in prison.

John Turscak, 30, expressed bitter disappointment with his sentence. He told U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz, “I didn’t commit those crimes for kicks. I did them because I had to if I wanted to stay alive. I told that to the [FBI] agents and they just said, ‘Do what you have to do.’ ”

In 1997, Turscak became an informant in an investigation that resulted in the indictment of more than 40 alleged Mexican Mafia members and associates.

Midway through the probe, however, prosecutors dropped him as an informer after he admitted dealing drugs, extorting money and authorizing assaults while on the government payroll.

The fact the person who stabbed Chauvin at one time worked as an informant was not lost on social media commentators, who believed it was more than just a coincidence.

“Coincidence? I don’t think so. Seems like a coordinated effort to kill Chauvin,” remarked conservative commenter Laura Loomer.