Family disputes corrections officials’ account of 24-year-old’s death
Friends and family paid their respects for a Brooklyn man who died in an incident at an upstate prison several weeks ago.
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Feb 27, 2019, 10:41 PM
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Updated 2,128 days ago
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Friends and family paid their respects for a Brooklyn man who died in an incident at an upstate prison several weeks ago.
State corrections officials say 24-year-old Anthony Myrie died of a heart attack after a fight with other inmates.
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Loved ones say they do not believe that account. They say Myrie was healthy when he entered the facility.
An autopsy performed upstate was inconclusive and results of a second independent autopsy requested by his family are still unknown.
Myrie is set to be laid to rest Thursday at the Cypress Hills Cemetery.
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Loved ones say they do not believe that account. They say Myrie was healthy when he entered the facility.
An autopsy performed upstate was inconclusive and results of a second independent autopsy requested by his family are still unknown.
Myrie is set to be laid to rest Thursday at the Cypress Hills Cemetery.
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