An alleged murderer on Rikers Island attacked a correction officer, leaving her with broken bones in her face, authorities claimed Thursday, because he was “irate” that his cell door was locked.
Tymirh Bey-Foster, 21, was charged with second- and third-degree assault for the April 7 incident, which left the city Department of Correction employee unconscious with fractures and a severe cut to her face that required stitches.
In a statement announcing the indictments, Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark declared, “We will not tolerate this type of brutal assault.”
Bey-Foster, who is facing murder charges in connection with a gang-related killing, allegedly became “irate” when his cell door was bolted while he was outside. Regardless of whether an inmate is inside or outside the cell, jail procedure mandates the locking of doors.
But Bey-Foster began threatening the officer, according to authorities. She told him to stop, and when he refused, she pepper-sprayed him, The Post reported.
“I gave him a direct order: stop it!” the 45-year-old DOC employee told The Post the day after the incident. “The verbal command did not work. “Despite my direct application of spray into his face, it was ineffective; he then struck me with his fist.”
The hit sent her head slamming against 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,” the prosecutor’s office stated.
Other officers eventually subdued the man and pepper-sprayed him.
Bey-Foster, believed to be a member of the Money World gang, was detained at Rikers after being accused of murder in a 2020 shooting that killed a 26-year-old man, authorities said.
He allegedly planned the murder and fired the gun, mistaking the victim for a participant 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.”
