An accused murderer locked up on Rikers Island beat a correction officer — leaving her with broken bones in her face — because he was “irate” that his cell door was locked, prosecutors alleged Thursday.
Tymirh Bey-Foster, 21, was indicted on charges of second and third degree assault for the April 7 attack, which left the city Department of Correction staffer unconscious, and with fractures and a deep cut to her face that required stitches.
“This type of brutal assault will not be tolerated,” Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said in a statement announcing the indictment.
Bey-Foster — locked up on murder charges for a gang-related shooting — allegedly became “irate” that his cell door was bolted while he was outside of it. According to jail protocol, doors must be locked whether an inmate is inside or outside the cell.
But Bey-Foster began threatening the officer, prosecutors said. She told him to stop — and began pepper-spraying him when he refused, she told The Post.
âI gave him a direct order: Stop it!â the 45-year-old DOC staffer told The Post the day after the assault.. âThe verbal command didnât work ⦠and I sprayed straight into his face, but the spray wasnât effective, and he punched me with his fist.”
The punch caused her head to slam into a wall, knocking her out.
“She suffered fractures to her orbital and sinus bones as well as a deep cut to her face which required sutures,” prosecutors said.
The suspect was eventually subdued by other officers who also pepper-sprayed him.
Believed to be a member of the Money World gang, Bey-Foster was at Rikers after being charged with murder in a 2020 shooting that left a 26-year-old man dead, authorities said.
He allegedly planned the killing and pulled the trigger, erroneously believing the victim partook in an attack on another gang member that day.
“Assaults on Correction Officers happen all too frequently and their assailants must be held fully accountable,” Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association president Benny Boscio told The Post.
“We appreciate the District Attorney charging the inmate in this case swiftly and we continue to vigorously advocate for assaultive inmates, like this one, to face consecutive sentences instead of concurrent sentences for their violent crimes committed in jail.”
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