Investigators looking at Rikers suicidal inmate left alone against protocol
Horsone Moore, a Rikers Island inmate, was stopped from hanging himself, but guards apparently went against protocol and left the inmate and he committed suicide hours later.
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Sunday, October 20, 2013, 2:00 AM
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In 2009, Moore was convicted of attempted criminal possession of a weapon and assault after cops found a loaded .357 magnum revolver and four rounds of ammo in the back seat of his car. He served 16 months in an upstate prison and was released in 2010.
Investigators are trying to find out why a Rikers Island inmate who was stopped from hanging himself was left alone and ended up completing the deed hours later.
The city Correction Department has strict rules that officers must follow when an inmate threatens or attempts suicide. Those rules were apparently flouted in the case of Horsone Moore, 35, who hanged himself Oct. 13.
Suicidal inmates are required to be immediately taken for a psychiatric evaluation, and they are often admitted to a hospital or put in a monitored cell, where officers watch their every move, agency sources said.
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They are also dressed in a special smock that can’t be fashioned into a noose.
None of those steps was taken in Moore’s case, records of the incident reviewed by the Daily News show.
“There were some serious problems and breakdowns in the system,” an agency source said.
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Moore had a history of mental illness and had threatened to kill himself in the past, records show. In 2004, police arrested him after he barricaded himself and a girlfriend inside her Brooklyn apartment, turned on the stove and threatened to light a match. Moore was holding a machete to his throat.
In 2009, Moore was convicted of attempted criminal possession of a weapon and assault after cops found a loaded .357 Magnum revolver and four rounds of ammo in the back seat of his car. He served 16 months in an upstate prison and was released in 2010.
He was sent to Rikers Island on Oct. 11 for a parole violation and placed in central intake at the Anna M. Kross facility.
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The following night, correction officers found Moore had tied a bedsheet into a noose, placed it around his neck and tied it off on something in his holding cell, sources said.
He was not suspended from the noose when he was found, the sources added.
Seven hours later, about 3 a.m. on Oct. 13, Moore hanged himself from a showerhead in a decontamination cell in the same central intake center. That cell is normally used for inmates who have been pepper-sprayed.
A spokesman for the Correction Department confirmed the investigation.
“This department takes seriously the death of a person in custody,” department spokesman Robin Campbell said. “Where the investigation identifies opportunities to improve, we will adopt those measures to prevent a reoccurrence.”
The city Correction Department has strict rules that officers must follow when an inmate threatens or attempts suicide. Those rules were apparently flouted in the case of Horsone Moore, 35, who hanged himself Oct. 13.
Suicidal inmates are required to be immediately taken for a psychiatric evaluation, and they are often admitted to a hospital or put in a monitored cell, where officers watch their every move, agency sources said.
RELATED: GYPSY FAMILY OF MAN JAILED AT RIKERS GOES FOR THE GOLD
They are also dressed in a special smock that can’t be fashioned into a noose.
None of those steps was taken in Moore’s case, records of the incident reviewed by the Daily News show.
RELATED: RIKERS GUARD AGREED TO FREE INMATE FOR $100,000 WORTH OF COCAINE
Christie M. Farriella/for New York Daily News
Moore was sent to Rikers Island on Oct. 11 for a parole violation and placed in central intake at the Anna M. Kross facility.
In 2009, Moore was convicted of attempted criminal possession of a weapon and assault after cops found a loaded .357 Magnum revolver and four rounds of ammo in the back seat of his car. He served 16 months in an upstate prison and was released in 2010.
He was sent to Rikers Island on Oct. 11 for a parole violation and placed in central intake at the Anna M. Kross facility.
RELATED: MAN SENTENCED FOR BREAKING INTO RIKERS, POSING AS OFFICER
The following night, correction officers found Moore had tied a bedsheet into a noose, placed it around his neck and tied it off on something in his holding cell, sources said.
He was not suspended from the noose when he was found, the sources added.
Seven hours later, about 3 a.m. on Oct. 13, Moore hanged himself from a showerhead in a decontamination cell in the same central intake center. That cell is normally used for inmates who have been pepper-sprayed.
A spokesman for the Correction Department confirmed the investigation.
“This department takes seriously the death of a person in custody,” department spokesman Robin Campbell said. “Where the investigation identifies opportunities to improve, we will adopt those measures to prevent a reoccurrence.”
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