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Prosecutors accuse 20 people after a mortal fight

Prosecutors accuse 20 people after a mortal fight

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Twenty people have been accused in relation to the death of three inmates who were killed in a Maximum security prison bray In East Nevada last year, prosecutors said.

He Final arrest In the investigation, the Office of the Attorney General of Nevada was carried out on Tuesday. Prosecutors have presented multiple charges against 20 accused of the incident, including first degree murder and attempted murder with the use of a mortal weapon with the intention of promoting or helping a criminal gang.

“The search for justice does not stop at the gates of the prison, and those responsible for the death of the three inmates in Ely’s state prison will be responsible,” said Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford, in a statement. “We remain committed to ensuring that violence and misconduct within our state correctional system are found with all the force of the law.”

Arrests and charges come later Three inmates were killed And five others were injured during a fight in ELY’s state prison in July 2024, according to the Office of the Attorney General of Nevada. The prison came into block for at least two days after the incident, the Nevada (NDOC) corrections department reported.

The investigation is being directed by the White Pine County Sheriff’s office, prosecutors confirmed. Other state and local agencies, such as the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, the Sparks Police Department, the Reno Police Department, the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office and the Office of the Inspector General of Nevada have also helped in the case.

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What happened in Ely’s state prison fight?

The incident began as an altercation that became deadly, according to the NDOC. The White Pine County Sheriff’s office said he received a report on a great fight between the inmates and responded to the detention center around 9:40 am local time on July 30, 2024.

Before the agents responded, the Sheriff’s office was notified that multiple inmates had died in the fight and several others needed medical attention. The detectives and the local coroner responded and discovered three dead inmates, said the sheriff’s office.

Initially, the authorities reported that nine other inmates were injured in the fight. The injured were transported to a local medical center for the treatment of un specified wounds suffered in the fight.

Some of the injured were also taken by medical helicopter to hospitals, authorities said. No officer were injured in the incident.

The Office of the Governor of Nevada confirmed that the fight had been “related to gangs”, KVVU-TV reported at that time. While officials did not reveal what kind of weapons they were used in the attack, the Sheriff’s office said the three inmates died from “multiple wounds of acute force,” according to KRNV-DT.

The prison is located north of the city of Ely, which is about 60 miles west of the state line of Nevada and Utah. According to the NDOC website, Ely State Prison is one of the six Nevada prisons and has a maximum capacity of 1,183 inmates.

Less than two months after the incident, the NDOC designated a new prison of maximum security. In September, the department said that the state prison of high desert in southern Nevada will replace Eloy’s state prison as the maximum security of the State.

Eloy’s state prison was the transition to average security and almost 2,000 inmates were transferred between the two facilities in September, according to the NDOC.

“The change will ensure that the highest risk criminals are where the personnel levels are higher, and the institution is closer to medical and application services and medical services, if necessary,” said the NDOC in a statement. “The high desert state prison is also a newer installation with higher perimeter security standards.”

White Supreme Gang Members among those killed in the prison fight

The three killed inmates were later identified as Connor Brown, 22; Anthony Williams, 41; and Zackaria Luz, 43. The three were declared dead in Ely’s state prison, said the NDOC.

Brown arrived at the NDOC in May 2021 from Washoe County in northwest Nevada, according to the department. He had been serving a sentence of seven to 20 years for theft with the use of a mortal weapon. Brown declared himself guilty of severe crime after stabbing an employee of the service station and a pattern of the casino during a 2020 robbery in the center of Reno, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Koto-Tv reported.

Williams was fulfilling a life sentence with no possibility of probation for open murder and being a usual criminal, according to the NDOC. The department said he arrived at the NDOC in April 2019 from Clark County in South Nevada.

Luz was fulfilling a sentence of seven to 18 years for organized crime, said the NDOC. He arrived at the NDOC in October 2023 after being sentenced outside Clark.

Both Luz and Williams were members of the Aryan Warriors, a white supremacist prison gang, the Reindeer Gazette-Journalpart of the USA Today’s network, previously reported. The two were among the 23 members who were accused in 2019 for more than 150 positions, including drug trafficking, organized crime and murder.

The accusation tied Williams and another man with the murder in 2016 of Andrew Ryan Thurgood in the state prison of high desert. Meanwhile, Luz was appointed as the leader of the Aryan Warriors in the accusation.

At the time of the accusation, the Aryan warriors were described as a paramilitary group organized with agents both in the prison and in the Las Vegas community. Invancing leaders would give orders to street members to commit crimes.

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The charges come in the midst of criticism against us

Tuesday’s announcement occurs in the midst of continuous criticisms of the defenders of criminal justice reform on dangerous conditions in prisons throughout the country. Federal and state investigations have also discovered generalized problems in these facilities, including Official misconduct and corruptionand physical and Sexual abuse by staff.

In December 2022, the NDOC said that 39 people imprisoned in Ely’s state prison celebrated a hunger strike in protest for portions of inadequate foods and poor conditions. Similar conditions have been reported in numerous facilities in the United States, according to the Vera Justice Institute, a group of non -profit experts focused on criminal justice reform.

The Vera Institute of Justice He said in 2023 that prisons are often overpopulated and with little personal, which leads to unsafe conditions. The organization cited several incidents in the facilities in Illinois, California and New York that included accusations of violence, abuse and an increase in inmate deaths.

Another high profile case involved the Georgia Corrections Department. An October 2024 report from the United States Department of Justice discovered that inmates housed in Georgia’s facilities were maintained in “horrible” conditions that violated the protection of the Constitution against cruel and unusual punishment, Use Today reported.

He Sexual abuse of adult inmates It is also a continuous problem in prisons and US prisons. Uu. Thousands of intermediary and intermediary incidents from 2016 to 2018 were reported, according to a special report from the Department of Justice published in 2023.

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Contributing: Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Jason Hidalgo and Ed Komenda, Reno Gazette-Journal

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