Robert Brooks Jr., Brooks’s son, said those involved robbed him and his family the chance to reunite with each other. “We’ll not allow his death to be in vain,” Brooks Jr. said.

Robert Brooks Jr. speaks at a press conference following the indictment of one Sargent and 8 New York State corrections officers for the murder of his father at the Marcy correctional facility, at ...

Henrietta, N.Y. — Robert Brooks Jr. had dreamed of what he would do once his father got out of prison. The two could talk and spend time together without corrections officers getting in the way.

Murder charges have been filed in the tragic case of Robert Brooks, a 43-year-old inmate who was brutally beaten by ...

Body camera footage documenting the fatal beating of Robert Brooks at the hands of New York state correctional officers has triggered an outpouring of rage and condemnations – and analysis from ...

Brooks' family reacts. In a statement released by the family, Robert Brooks Jr., reacted to Walrath's guilty plea in his father's case. “Now, Mr. Walrath’s life is in the hands of prison ...

Who was Robert Brooks? Brooks pled guilty to first-degree assault, a felony, for stabbing his longtime girlfriend on April 18, 2016 and was sentenced to 12 years in state prison in 2017.

Robert Brooks, a 43-year-old Black man, died in the early hours of December 10 after he was beaten by multiple correctional officers at Marcy Correctional Facility, an all-male state prison about ...

Three of the officers involved in a fatal beating of Robert Brooks, a handcuffed inmate at the Marcy Correctional Facility upstate New York, were previously accused of abuse and assault, according ...