HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Four Florida correctional officers were arrested on murder charges for allegedly beating an inmate to death, authorities said.
Christopher Rolon, 29, Kirk Walton, 34, and Ronald Connor, 24, were arrested Thursday following a monthslong investigation of the fatal incident at the Dade Correctional Institution in Miami-Dade County, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said.
"Today is a day of accountability," Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, whose office is prosecuting the case, told reporters during a briefing Friday. After Ingram reportedly threw urine on an officer, he was placed in handcuffs and removed from his cell in the mental health unit, at which point the officers"began to beat him," the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said in a statement.Rundle said that a witness recalled hearing another officer say that Ingram, who was serving a life sentence for murder,"would never throw urine on another correctional officer again.
Ingram was placed in a compartment of the van alone. During a stop in Ocala, an over 300-mile drive from Dade Correctional Institution, he was found dead, authorities said. "What happened in this case is completely unacceptable and is not a representation of our system or of Dade Correctional Institution as a whole," Florida Department of Corrections Secretary Ricky Dixon said in a statement Thursday."The staff involved in this case failed, and as an agency we will not stand for this."
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