LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The Nevada Legal professional Common’s Workplace has charged 20 folks in reference to the homicide of three inmates in a state jail final 12 months.
Connor Brown, 22; Zackaria Luz, 43; and Anthony Williams, 41, all died from “a number of sharp power accidents” through the battle contained in the Ely State Jail on July 30, 2024, 8 Information Now reported final 12 months.
Luz and Williams had been two of 23 Aryan Warriors, members of a white supremacist gang, charged as a part of an earlier investigation. Williams confronted extra fees for killing Andrew Thurgood, 26, inside a cell at Excessive Desert State Jail in 2016. Brown was in jail on a theft cost, data stated.
5 different inmates had been injured within the battle.
Prices in opposition to the 20 defendants embrace first-degree homicide and tried homicide with gang enhancements, prosecutors stated.
“The pursuit of justice does not stop at the prison gates, and those responsible for thedeaths of the three inmates at Ely State Prison will be held accountable,” Democratic Nevada Legal professional Common Aaron Ford stated in a information launch. “We remain committed to ensuring that violence and misconduct within our state correctional system are met with the full force of the law.”
Particular particulars about every case weren’t instantly referred to as prosecutors filed the circumstances in rural White Pine County.
The jail, which is a number of hours north of Las Vegas, was dwelling to Nevada’s dying row till the Division of Corrections moved offenders to Excessive Desert State Jail. The state has not put an inmate to dying since 2006.
