No criminal charges have been filed against the guards as a result of McBride’s killing, but the circumstances have attracted serious attention from the U.S.
The filing is part of a proceeding in which the 37-year-old inmate serving a life sentence for a 2012 murder in Macon seeks to set aside his conviction due to ineffective assistance of counsel. Williams’ assertions about the role of officers in McBride’s death are also included in a filing in Gwinnett County Superior Court. Explore Georgia prisons see unprecedented number of suicides “The reason why no one ever provides truthful information about things like this anywhere in the prison system is that the corruption goes so high up that no one is ever sure who can be trusted to address criminal activity by staff,” the claim states. It says that the inmate is entitled to sue the state as a whistleblower because he has been repeatedly subjected to retaliation for reporting wrongdoing at Phillips and expects it to continue in light of what he knows of McBride’s death. Williams’ notice of claim is the first step in suing the state.
However, Simon quickly got in a fatal blow by stabbing McBride in the heart, Williams’ account alleges. That inmate, Joseph Williams, says he saw officers make it possible for McBride and two other inmates to attack a rival gang member, Antavious Simon, first by removing Simon’s cellmate and unbolting the cell door and then by bringing McBride to lockdown. Two of them have since been linked to the fatal fight in a notice of claim filed last month with the Georgia Department of Administrative Services by the inmate who claims he was a witness. Records obtained by the AJC show that three officers were removed from their posts in the days after McBride’s death.
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