April 28, 2022, 11:46 p.m. • 5 minutes reading Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Email this article Three Florida jail officers have been arrested on a charge of allegedly beating a detainee to death while a fourth remains at large, authorities said Thursday. Christopher Rollon, 29, Kirk Walton, 34, and Ronald Connor, 24, were arrested Thursday after a months-long investigation into the Dade Penitentiary in Miami-Dade County, the Fibolino Department said in a statement. . They were arrested on multiple charges, such as second-degree murder, conspiracy, aggravation of an elderly adult and ill-treatment of a detainee, prison records show. The lawyer’s information was not immediately available. No additional information was provided on the fourth prison officer wanted by law enforcement. Former Florida Jail Officers Kirk Walton, Christopher Rollon and Ronald Connor appear in timeless composite photographs of police. The incident happened on the morning of Feb. 14, before the detainee was scheduled to be transferred to a Lake County Penitentiary, according to the Florida Law Enforcement Department, which led the death investigation together with the State of Miami-Dade. Prosecution. After the detainee allegedly threw urine at a police officer, he was handcuffed and removed from his cell at the mental health unit, where police “began beating him,” the Florida Law Enforcement Department said in a statement. “The detainee was beaten so badly that he had to be taken to the transport truck,” the agency said. The detainee, whose name was not disclosed by the agency, was placed in only one apartment of the van. He was found dead during a stop in Ocala, more than 300 miles by car from Dade Penitentiary, authorities said. An aerial view shows the Dade and Homestead Correctional Facility in Miami-Dade County, Florida, April 28, 2022. The inmate’s death was caused by a punctured lung that led to internal bleeding, according to the Florida Law Enforcement Department. He also had injuries to his face and torso “according to a beating,” the agency said. The incident initially led the Florida Department of Corrections to put 10 officers on administrative leave. An officer also resigned, the department said. “What happened in this case is completely unacceptable and does not represent our system or the Dade Penitentiary as a whole,” Florida Corrector Ricky Dixon said in a statement Thursday. “The staff involved in this case has failed and as a service we will not support it.” An aerial view shows the Dade and Homestead Correctional Facility in Miami-Dade County, Florida, April 28, 2022. The Miami-Dade Attorney’s Office, which is prosecuting the case, held a press conference Friday afternoon with the Florida Penitentiary and the Florida Law Enforcement Department to share more details about the criminal charges. “Staff misconduct, abuse or criminal misconduct has no place in the Florida Penitentiary,” said Miami-Date Attorney General Katherine Fernandez Randle in a statement. “Inmates should not be subject to forms of backdoor justice that violates Florida law.”
