Four Fla., Corrections Officers Charged In Inmate's Beating Death

Miami FL

04 May, 2022

5:12 PM

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Miami Times Staff Report, the Miami Times May 3, 2022 Four Florida State Corrections officers – including Kirk Walton, Christopher Rolon and Ronald Connor, who were arrested April 28, 2022 – have been charged in an inmate's beating death Four Florida State Corrections officers find themselves on the other side of the law, accused of murdering a 60-year-old inmate south of Florida City. Florida Department of Law Enforcement officials announced charges last week against Ronald Connor, Jeremy Godbolt, Christopher Rolon and Kirk Walton, following the results of a monthslong investigation. The officers face charges of second-degree murder, conspiracy, aggravated battery, cruel treatment of a detainee and aggravated abuse of an elderly person. Investigators said the inmate reportedly threw urine on an officer in February, resulting in the officers handcuffing and beating him to death. The inmate, Ronald Ingram, was carried to a transport van to be taken to another facility but was found dead hours later. The Miami Times is the largest Black-owned newspaper in the south serving Miami's Black community since 1923. The award-winning weekly is frequently recognized as the best Black newspaper in the country by the National Newspaper Publishers Association.