Jail Officer Beats Inmate To Death in Raleigh | fatal altercation between Wake County corrections officer and inmate. Jail Officer Beats Inmate To Death in Raleigh | Fatal Altercation: Corrections Officer vs. Inmate Video: Fatal altercation between Wake Co. detention officer and inmate RALEIGH, N.C. - A video released in court Tuesday shows a fatal altercation between a Wake County corrections officer and an inmate from June. Court documents show officer Markeith Council was involved an incident with Shon Demetrius McClain at the Wake County Detention Center June 4. Council was indicted in August and turned himself into the Wake County Detention Center soon after. McClain, 40, died from blunt force trauma to the head, neck, spinal and brain, damage that was sustained during the fight with Council, according to an autopsy. The inmate died 13 days later. Council is facing a charge of voluntary manslaughter in relation to the incident. McClain was in jail on misdemeanor drug charges when the assault occurred. According to the Department of Public Safety, McClain's convictions include possession of stolen goods, breaking and entering, larceny, indecent liberty with a child, failing to register as a sex offender and obstructing justice. A detention officer charged with voluntary manslaughter after the death of an inmate at the Wake County Detention Center this summer threatened the prisoner before the assault, a witness testified in the case Tuesday. Shon Demetrius McClain, 40, died from blunt force trauma to the head and neck 13 days after, the Wake County Sheriff's Office said, he was involved in an argument with officer Markeith Council. Council, a detention officer at the jail since 2009, was indicted in August and is on trial this week. He has been suspended from his job indefinitely without pay. "He said, 'I'll beat you to death, and I'll take my time calling the nurse for you,'" said Aaron Mitchell, an inmate in cell block FI at the Wake County jail in June. Jurors saw a 15-second video of the June 4 encounter in which it appeared that McClain and Council exchanged words before McClain unsuccessfully tried to hit the officer. Council then pushed McClain to the floor and slammed his head twice. Bashiri Sandy, another inmate, witnessed the attack. "I seen him dump him on his head, like twice," Sandy testified. "I witnessed that with my own eyes -- him holding the guy by his uniform and turning him upside down and slamming him." Inmate James Alston said he also saw the attack. "After (McClain) first got slammed, there was nothing he could do," he said. Video of fatal beating during jailer's trial Wake prosecutor plays graphic video of fatal beating during officer's trial Wake County District Attorney Colon Willoughby played and then re-played sections of a 13-second video in Superior Court that showed detention officer Markeith Council push, punch, elbow and twice slam an inmate head first on a concrete floor in a jail day room. The 6-foot, nearly 300-pound jailer then handcuffed the limp, 5-foot 7-inch, 119-pound inmate and radioed for help. The inmate, Shon Demetrius McClain, 40, died after the June 4 altercation, which took place a week after he had been booked into the Wake County jail on misdemeanor charges. On Aug. 6, Council was charged with voluntary manslaughter. The playing of the video during the second day of Council's trial was highly emotional for some members of McClain's family. Several left the courtroom in tears while the video played. "Just turn your head," McClain's aunt, Linda Judd, told family members after they learned that Willoughby would show the video several times Tuesday. Council's attorney, Craig James of Smithfield, did not dispute the video. But at day's end, he asked Judge Paul Gessner to dismiss the voluntary manslaughter charge because the statute indicates a person guilty of the crime must have committed the act with an intent to kill with malice. "We have an inmate who may or may have not struck a law enforcement officer," James said. "The state has not presented evidence showing that my client intended to kill him, but to subdue him." Willoughby disagreed, saying to prove voluntary manslaughter, prosecutors did not have to prove that Council intended to kill McClain, only that Council's actions resulted in injuries that caused McClain's death. The judge denied the request to dismiss the charge. Jury to determine Wake jailer's fate in manslaughter case Attorney Craig James' argument capped a three-day trial in which jurors were repeatedly shown a surveillance video of Council, 27, hoisting McClain in the air and slamming him down on a concrete floor of the Wake County's detention center in June. McClain, 40, died 13 days after the altercation, which took place a week after he had VIdeo de un carcelero funcionario de prisiones que golpea con un puñetazo la cabeza de un preso y lo mata. Preso muerto. muere. altercado en la carcel.

• published: 12 Dec 2013
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