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'The brother was being beat on': Inmates detail violence that preceded South Bay (Mass.) death
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/27/metro/suffolk-house-of-correction-death/archive: archive.ph/bQHIi
The footage is grainy, but one thing is clear: The moments leading up to Shacoby Kenny’s Dec. 8 death were chaotic.
Incarcerated at the Suffolk County House of Correction, Kenny, a 32-year-old man with a history of mental health problems, appeared to square up with a corrections officer before running around a room that resembles a cafeteria, chased by men in uniforms. One tried to stop him and failed. He scampered out of the frame of the video surveillance, then re-entered it.
Eventually, a group of officers surrounded him near a stairwell, the internal video surveillance of the altercation obtained by the Globe shows. At least one of the corrections officers threw punches. The scrum, with Kenny at the center, eventually collapsed to the ground. He was pronounced dead the next morning.
Four witnesses to the fight, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were incarcerated with Kenny and fear retribution, described to the Globe what they saw that day, helping to flesh out details that are hard to discern on the surveillance tape. The witnesses described corrections officers punching Kenny, kneeing him in the ribs, and kneeling on his neck when he was down on the ground.
Incarcerated at the Suffolk County House of Correction, Kenny, a 32-year-old man with a history of mental health problems, appeared to square up with a corrections officer before running around a room that resembles a cafeteria, chased by men in uniforms. One tried to stop him and failed. He scampered out of the frame of the video surveillance, then re-entered it.
Eventually, a group of officers surrounded him near a stairwell, the internal video surveillance of the altercation obtained by the Globe shows. At least one of the corrections officers threw punches. The scrum, with Kenny at the center, eventually collapsed to the ground. He was pronounced dead the next morning.
Four witnesses to the fight, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were incarcerated with Kenny and fear retribution, described to the Globe what they saw that day, helping to flesh out details that are hard to discern on the surveillance tape. The witnesses described corrections officers punching Kenny, kneeing him in the ribs, and kneeling on his neck when he was down on the ground.