Police investigate death of inmate at N.Y. prison as 11 staff placed on administrative leave
A police investigation is underway after an inmate died Saturday at a New York State prison where 11 staff have already been placed on administrative leave.
A police investigation is underway after an inmate died Saturday at a New York state prison where 11 staff have already been placed on administrative leave, officials said.
Messiah Nantwi, 22, died at Wynn Hospital in Utica, the New York Department of Corrections said in a statement Monday night. No details related to the circumstances of his death were released.
Nantwi, was being held at the Mid-State Correctional Facility to the north of Utica, where he was awaiting trial for allegedly shooting and killing two people in two separate incidents within 30 hours in in 2023.
He was already serving a five-year sentence for the second-degree possession of a criminal weapon related to a 2021 shooting.
Nantwi's death comes two weeks after six prison officers were charged over the death of Robert Brooks, who was beaten by guards in December at the Marcy Correctional Facility — just a few hundred yards away — in an attack Gov. Kathy Hochul described as “brutal” and “sickening.”
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