A grand jury in Oneida County has handed up charges against correction officers involved in the Dec. 9 beating of an inmate at Marcy Correctional Facility

"Let me begin by expressing my deepest sympathies the family of Robert Brooks, who was tragically and senselessly murdered at Marcy Correctional Facility."

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.

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.