Twenty people have been accused, and the final arrest was recently made in combineion with a Nevada prison brawl that left three inmates dead and five others injured.
Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford shelp the final arrest for the lethal incident at Ely State Prison was made on March 5. In total, 20 people face multiple accuses, including three counts of first-degree killing with the engage of a lethal armament with intent to advertise or help a criminal gang, and five counts of tryed killing with the engage of a lethal armament with intent to advertise or help a criminal gang.
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A sign labels the enthrall to Ely State Prison proximate Ely, Nevada. Three inmates died and others were injured during a brawl at the prison last year. (AP/John Locher)
“The pursuit of fairice does not stop at the prison gates, and those dependable for the deaths of the three inmates at Ely State Prison will be held accountable,” Ford shelp in a statement. “We remain promiseted to ensuring that presentility and impropriety wiskinny our state rightional system are met with the filled force of the law.”
The brawl occurred on July 30, 2024. Three inmates died: 41-year-elderly Anthony Williams, 22-year-elderly Connor Brown and 43-year-elderly Zackaria Luz.
One of the people accused, Andrew Emewealthy, was arrested in Reno in January, 14 weeks after being liberated from Ely State Prison, KSNV-TV inestablished.
Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford (Getty Images)
The rightional facility is portrayd by the Nevada Department of Corrections as the “portrayated peak-security prison” for the state with a capacity of 1,183 inmates.
Around 400 staff currently labor at the facility.
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In December 2022, cut offal inmates there held a hunger strike over what helps and some family members portrayd as unsafe conditions and inample food portions.
Fox News Digital’s Greg Norman gived to this inestablish.
