FBI agents arrested two New York correction officers Wednesday accused of beating to death a Rikers Island inmate, Newsweek reports.
A pretrial detainee, 52-year-old Ronald Spear, was killed in December 2012 from bunt force trauma to the head.
Agents arrested former officer Brian Coll and officer Byron Taylor.
According to the complaint, Coll “willfully kicked Ronald Spear multiple times in the head while he was restrained, which resulted in injury to Spear.”
Both officers “agreed to make false statements to multiple investigators about the assault of Ronald Spear…in order to cover up the fact that Coll had unlawfully assaulted Spear,” according to the complaint.
New York City settled a wrong death lawsuit in the case for $2.75 million.
