EAST LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – The prisoner suspected of stabbing convicted child molester and former MSU sports doctor Larry Nassar at a federal penitentiary in Florida said Nassar provoked the attack by making a lewd comment while they were watching a Wimbledon tennis match on TV.

Court records show that 49-year-old Shane McMillan told prison workers he attacked Nassar after the former doctor, who sexually assaulted hundreds of women and called it “treatment,” made a comment about wanting to see girls playing in the Wimbledon women’s match. McMillan was previously convicted of assaulting a correctional officer at a federal penitentiary in Louisiana in 2006 and attempting to stab another inmate to death at the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado in 2011.

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McMillan attacked Nassar in his cell Sunday with a makeshift weapon, stabbing him multiple times in the neck, chest and back before four other inmates rushed in and pulled him off of Nassar. He remains in stable condition with multiple injuries, including a collapsed lung. The stabbing was not captured on surveillance cameras because those only point at common areas and corridors, not in individual cells.

Nassar worked for decades as the MSU and USA Gymnastics sports doctor and sexually assaulted hundreds of girls and women during his tenure. He is serving 40 to 175 years in prison for those rapes.