GRAPHIC: Cell phone video shows inmate being stabbed by a group of others inside Clayton County jail - WSB Atlanta

CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — Graphic video captures a gruesome jailhouse location onslaught connected a detainee successful the Clayton County Jail.

Channel 2′s Audrey Washington was LIVE connected Channel 2 Action News astatine 5 p.m. at the jailhouse wherever she spoke with the victim’s parent who said the jailhouse should person prevented this from happening.

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The parent asked that her look not beryllium shown and that her son’s sanction not beryllium utilized for fearfulness of retaliation.

According to the parent of the victim, the video shows 5 clayton region jailhouse inmates attacking her 21-year-old son. He was stabbed 23 times.

“He had stabbings to his ear, his head, his thorax area, his stomach,” she said.

Channel 2 blurred immoderate of the images successful the video, but the video is inactive hard to watch.

The parent said 1 of the inmates recorded the incidental with a compartment telephone and posted it to societal media.

Attorney Akil Secret with Hall & Lampros Law Firm said this raises questions astir the sheriff’s office.

“It raises superior questions astir the attraction and imaginable negligence connected the portion of the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office,” said Secret. “I actually, to this day, person not looked astatine the video and volition not look astatine it due to the fact that I heard it is precise terrifying.”

Sheriff Levon Allen released a connection to Channel 2 and said helium became alert of the battle connected Jan. 4. Allen said, successful all, 5 inmates, including Beau Mosely and Derrick Thrash, were identified and charges with attempted murder. They are besides facing possession of prohibited items charges.

Attorney Secret said the unfortunate was a non-violent pre-trial detainee.

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Both Secret and the victim’s parent privation to cognize however different inmates got entree to the 21-year-old’s jailhouse cell, and however those men got a limb and a compartment phone.

Channel 2 reached retired to the sheriff’s bureau for answers, but nary 1 has responded.

As for the victim’s condition, the parent said helium has a agelong roadworthy to recovery.

“He’s successful a wheelchair, has a collapsed lung, has a hard clip breathing,” said the mother.

Sheriff Allen did spell connected to accidental successful the connection that the onslaught was gang-related and that “there volition beryllium zero tolerance for pack activities successful the Clayton County Jail.”

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