New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has called for criminal charges to be filed and arrests to be made after an autopsy report determined Black inmate Robert Brooks’ fatal beating at the hands of correctional officers in December to be a homicide.

An attorney representing Robert Brooks' family says the Onondaga Medical Examiner’s Office ruled his death a homicide.

The death of Robert Brooks, the state prison inmate who was beaten by guards at Marcy Correctional Facility, has been ruled a homicide by a medical examiner. Charges remain unfiled against any of the 18 people that the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision has named in its review of the incident.

Gov. Kathy Hochul said an autopsy found that the death of Robert Brooks was a homicide. Brooks died after a beating from officers.

The death of a shackled inmate at a central New York State prison late last year has been ruled a homicide, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday. Robert Brooks, 43, was brutally beaten with his hands tied behind his back by corrections officers while in custody at Marcy Correction Facility on Dec.

An autopsy report has determined that Robert Brooks, a Black inmate in New York who was brutally beaten by correctional officers, died by homicide.