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.

The death of Robert Brooks, a man from Greece who died after being fatally beaten by corrections officers at Marcy Correctional Facility on Dec. 9, has been ruled a homicide, according to the Onondaga County Medical Examiner.

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

An autopsy conducted showed the inmate suffered extensive bruising, a broken nose bone and bleeding in his genitals and neck.

The death of Robert Brooks, an incarcerated man beaten at Marcy Correctional Facility, has been ruled a homicide, according to the family’s attorney. Now, Governor Kathy Hochul is calling for charges to be filed,

The beating death of an inmate allegedly at the hands of correction guards at upstate New York prison is leading to calls for systematic changes.

The death of Robert Brooks, a Black man brutally beaten by corrections officers at Marcy Correctional Facility, was ruled a homicide in an autopsy report.