Disturbing past of guards who beat inmate strapped to gurney to death is revealed

Chilling new details have emerged about the brutal beating of an inmate at Marcy Correctional Facility in upstate New York, which ultimately led to the inmate’s death.

At least three of the thirteen New York correctional officers involved in the savage beating of 39-year-old Robert Brooks – who was handcuffed at the time of the fatal beating – have been accused of participating in similar attacks on prisoners across the state.

A sergeant and two guards at the facility – 52 miles outside of Syracuse – were previously named in federal lawsuits filed by prisoners accusing them of horrific assaults, including one that left a man permanently disfigured.

One of the officers accused in the assault of Brooks, who was serving a 12-year sentence for first-degree assault, is accused of beating an inmate inside of a bathroom at the Oneida County prison, the New York Times reports.

The officer, Nicholas Anzalone, allegedly punched and kicked inmate Adam Bauer, who was a year away from his release date, in February 2020, before the officer accused Bauer of attacking them, an ongoing lawsuit claims.

Bauer was left topless and bloodied after the attack, the lawsuit claims.

‘I was scared to death,’ Bauer, now 50, told the Times. ‘I really truly thought they were going to kill me.’

In September of that same year, two additional guards involved in the fatal December 10 attack on Brooks, allegedly participated in a gruesome attack on another prisoner.

At least three of the thirteen New York correctional officers involved in the savage beating of 39-year-old Robert Brooks (left) – who was handcuffed at the time of the fatal beating – have been accused of participating in similar attacks on prisoners across the state

William Alvarez claims he was cleaning the facility’s bathroom shower area when an officer pepper-sprayed him without provocation, according to a lawsuit.

Sergeant Glenn Trombly and officer Anthony Farin then repeatedly slammed Alvarez’s head into a wall before handcuffing him and dragging him into a van sent to the infirmary, the suit claims.

Alvarez, who’s lawsuit alleges that he is now permanently disfigured, has since required facial surgery, the Times reports.

Trombly was also accused of forcing another inmate, Rendell Robinson, to strip naked during a frisk in a 2013 altercation.

Robinson claimed another officer then took turns punching him in the face, according to his lawsuit. He allegedly suffered from a concussion and a fractured nose following the attack.

‘I really began to fear for my life at this point because they would not let go of me,’ Robinson wrote in his complaint to the court.

In 2015, another man, Equarn White, accused Trombly and several other officers of viciously attacking him in an empty classroom, pulling his legs in opposite directions, stomping on his testicles and striking the bottom of his feet with a baton.

However, in the days before the horrific videos of Brooks’s final moments were made public, state police filed applications seeking red flag orders for officer Anzalone and two other officers said to be involved in the fatal attack, Matthew Galliher and Robert Kessler. 

A sergeant and two guards at the facility – 52 miles outside of Syracuse – were previously named in federal lawsuits filed by prisoners accusing them of horrific assaults, including one that left a man permanently disfigured. Pictured: Prison guards captured on surveillance video attacking Robert Brooks

Thirteen correction officers and a nurse implicated in the attack will face termination, according to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul , who said she was ‘outraged and horrified’ by videos of the ‘senseless killing.’ Pictured: Bodycam footage shows New York cops beating inmate to death

A so-called red flag order allows law enforcement authorities to remove guns from people believed to be a potential threat to themselves or others. 

A judge in Oneida County rejected the applications, but has since ordered the state police to conduct background checks on the officers.

A hearing on the matter is scheduled for January 7.

Brooks, 43, was pronounced dead on December 10, the morning after the brutal assault at the correctional facility.

His final, agonizing moments were caught on body worn cameras used by prison officers which showed the attack as well as several prison wardens failing to intervene.

Thirteen correction officers and a nurse implicated in the attack will face termination, according to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, who said she was ‘outraged and horrified’ by videos of the ‘senseless killing.’

The footage was made public Friday by the New York Attorney General Letitia James and shows three correction officers carrying Brooks aloft into a medical examination room.

Once inside, they repeatedly punching Brooks in the face and groin as he sits handcuffed on a medical examination table.

At one point one of the officers shoves his boot into Brooks’ stomach, forcing him backwards, while another yanks him up by his neck and drops him back on the table.   

Brooks was declared dead at a hospital the following morning. 

Preliminary findings from a medical examination indicate ‘concern for asphyxia due to compression of the neck as the cause of death, as well as the death being due to actions of another,’ according to court filings. 

The final results of the autopsy are still pending.