Four Missouri prison guards have been charged with murder, and a fifth with involuntary manslaughter, in the December death of a Black man who was in custody at the Jefferson City Correctional Center. Thirty-eight-year-old Othel Moore Jr. died on Dec. 8.
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Four Missouri prison guards were charged Friday with murder, and a fifth with involuntary manslaughter, in thewho died after the officers pepper sprayed him and covered his face with a mask while in custody at a correctional facility, authorities said.
An attorney for Moore’s family, Andrew Stroth, has said Moore had blood coming out of his ears and nose and that several inmates heard Moore screaming that he couldn’t breathe. The complaint charges Justin Leggins, Jacob Case, Aaron Brown and Gregory Varner each with one count of second-degree murder and with one count of being an accessory to second-degree assault. A fifth guard, Bryanne Bradshaw, is charged with one count of accessory to involuntary manslaughter.
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