Airway Heights man accused of attacking a doctor at Eastern State Hospital while committed there for a previous crime

A Spokane County Commissioner set 43-year-old Zion Carter’s bond at $100K Monday for allegedly attacking a doctor at Eastern State Hospital in Medical Lake over the weekend.

A Spokane judge acquitted him of the attempted murder of his wife and his stepdaughter by reason of insanity last year, but eventually found him guilty of unlawful possession of a firearm and sentenced him to three years and nine months to serve at Eastern State Hospital.

Carter faced a Spokane County Commissioner for the first time on Monday, Oct. 5, for allegedly attacking his caregiver…

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