S YRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Onondaga County Sheriff’s Custody Deputy Erik Francis was honored at the Syracuse Crunch game on Wednesday, Jan. 15, after being stabbed by an inmate at the ...

The Sheriff's Office said, that on Jan. 10, inmate Jeffrey Tillman, 37, acquired a four-inch long knife and used it to stab Deputy Erik Francis in a facility common area. Another staff member ...

10. When lunch was about to be served, Tillman was asked by Deputy Erik Francis to return to his cell, Onondaga County Sheriff Toby Shelley said at a news conference. When Francis was about to ...