GREEN COVE SPRINGS – An argument between two inmates on March 10 led to the attack of one of the men by four others, including three who were in jail on murder charges.

According to a five-page arrest report, Dontae Cameron Reid and Bernard Reese got into a confrontation in the B4 Wing of the Clay County Jail. Reese punched Reid in the face before Deshaun Michael Green, Kyle Randelston, Qwentin Deshaun Simmons and Daveion Austin joined in the attack.

Reid also sustained several stab wounds to his back and the back of his head. He was transported to HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital for treatment.

The fight started when Austin entered Reid’s jail cell while he was asleep. He said Austin said he wanted to use his cell so he could talk to somebody in another dorm. Reid told Austin not to sneak up on him while he was asleep, and that started the argument.

Reese then attacked Reid to trigger the melee.

Surveillance video showed Simmons striking Reid’s back with a weapon, but nothing was recovered. Simmons told deputies, “You’re not going to find it. I got rid of it.”

Deputies believe the weapon was either a pencil or pen.

Simmons, who was in jail after being charged with six counts of attempted murder, aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, firefighter or EMT, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and attempted murder of a law enforcement officer after he fired at U.S. Marshals agents and deputies with the Clay County Sheriff’s Office and officers with the Green Cove Springs Police Department. On Dec. 16 when they tried to apprehend him during school hours near Green Cove Springs Junior High and Charles E. Bennett Elementary, Simmons fired randomly at law enforcement while he tried to escape on a bicycle.

He now faces an additional charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.

Austin, Reese, Green and Randelston all were charged with aggravated battery in jail.

Green was in jail after being charged with second-degree murder after Jandel Rodriguez was shot while walking on Claremont Avenue in Orange Park on Jan. 2, 2022.

Randelston was arrested for jail fight on Feb. 26, in 2021, and for two counts attempted murder for shooting .380 into a Sweet 16 party on Vine Street on April 10, 2020. There were 20-to-30 people at the party when a fight broke out in the living room after someone commented about somebody’s nose ring. One man was shot in abdomen, another in the back.

CCSO arrested Austin following Nov. 17, 2020, armed robbery in Green Cove Springs. Felony murder charges were then added after 18-year-old Skyler Townsend was shot on Center Street during the robbery.

Reese was charged with murder and possession of a concealed weapon after the Orange Park Police Department said he shot his brother in the back with a gun he bought to threaten someone to stop “hitting” on his cousin. He was in the bedroom with his brother when he pulled the trigger and it discharged. He told police he forgot he had a bullet in the chamber.

Reid was arrested on Jan. 27 and charged with stalking and making threats against his former fiancée.