23-year-old Andy Aragon received 75 stab wounds while in custody in the Manhattan complex of detention in lower Manhattan. The prisoner attacked the prisoners from the other camera, using homemade weapons.
Aragon, with the support of lawyer Andrew Laufer sued security prison for the unprofessional actions, which on 22 October it became possible attack on him. As told Laufer, Aragon pestered with the illegal requirements of prisoners who are members of the gang MS-13. Having received a refusal to cooperate, the criminals were ordered to kill him.
An internal investigation held in prison after the attack revealed that the attackers Luis Rivas (Inquieto, 23), Dennis Cabrera (Panda, 27 years old) and Javier Rodriguez (Joker, 33 years) who were suspected of extortion, on the eve of the attack, repeatedly contacted by telephone with friends in the wild. Rivas told his girlfriend on the phone about the planned attack: «We all three have to do it, all because of this damn gang. If not, I will stab».
Counsel notes that phone calls are recorded and monitored by prisoners, and these were no exception. But the guards not only failed to take action, but «did not notice», as the three of them moved from their floor to another, which is prohibited, and went to Aragon. While the attackers had enough time to deliver a 75 wounds to the victim throughout the body, including the face. The attack ended not because of the actions of the bandits have left themselves, believing that Aragon was killed. Surprisingly, he survived and was transferred to Brooklyn prison.
Laufer in the Daily News stated that the protection in this case was incompetent, but assured that he has a lot of similar signals from prisoners that the bandits themselves there feel at ease.
