Larry Nassar made "lewd comment" about Wimbledon players before prison stabbing

The inmate who stabbed disgraced USA gymnast doctor Larry Nassar this week has told authorities he did so after Nassar made "a lewd comment" while watching a television broadcast of the Wimbledon tennis tournament, AP has revealed.

The events occurred on Sunday, 9 July, when an altercation between Larry Nassar and another inmate resulted in Nassar being stabbed 10 times.

AP has reported that the inmate, identified as Shane McMillan, was aware of Nassar's abusive crimes against underage girls on the USA gymnastics team prior to the event. Court records show that has been McMillan was previously convicted of attempting to stab another inmate to death at the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado in 2011.

McMillan is said to have 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, according to AP.

A spokesman for the Coleman Penitentiary, in statements collected by TMZ, assured that measures were taken to "save lives" when they intervened in the brawl.

This same spokesman confirmed that "no staff and other inmates were injured" in the attack.

McMillan, 49, told prison workers that he attacked Nassar after the disgraced gymnastics team doctor made a comment about "wanting to see girls playing in the Wimbledon women’s match", a prison spokesman said via AP.

During daylight hours, cell doors within most federal prison units are generally left open, granting prisoners the freedom to move about within the facility. As Nassar's attack occurred within his cell, the incident went undocumented as surveillance cameras are primarily positioned to monitor common areas and corridors, rather than individual cells.

The latest reports show Nassar is stable but is being treated for his serious injuries, which include a collapsed lung. Once recovered, the convicted sex abuser will return to prison to serve his sentence.

While recovering from the attack, Larry Nassar continues to serve the 175-year prison sentence he was given for abusing gymnasts, many of them Olympians, such as Simone Biles.

Most of the abused gymnasts were minors when the events occurred, events that the sports doctor acknowledged having carried out, when the trial was held.

Larry Nassar confirmed that everything happened when he worked at Michigan State University, in addition to pleading guilty to possession of compromised children's audiovisuals.

During the trial, held in 2018, hundreds of athletes confessed to more than two decades of continued abuse by the defendant.

Among the most shocking of the matter, was the fact that many of them reported the events to other adults but no action was taken, nor was Larry Nassar removed from his duties.

It was in 2016 when he was finally arrested, after a year earlier, Simone Biles led the public complaints against the sports doctor.

Finally, the University of Michigan was accused of inaction and ordered to pay 500 million dollars to the more than 300 women and girls who complained.

Three years later, USA Gymnastics and the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee reached an agreement estimated at 380 million dollars to close one of the darkest chapters in the history of the sport.

While some await updates on the condition of Larry Nassar, it is logical to think that not everyone will have been concerned about what happened.