A woman says her nephew was stabbed while in custody at the Hinds County Detention Center in Raymond, but Sheriff Tyree Jones isn’t confirming the attack.
Nicole Gibson said her nephew, 26-year-old Isaac Gibson, told her he was stabbed over 10 times in the back of the head and the neck between 3 and 5 a.m. on Thursday. He had been denied bond after he was charged with murder in the killing of 18-year-old Trevarius Cooper at a south Jackson apartment complex.
Nicole Gibson obtained what appears to be a cellphone video that she says shows the attack on her nephew, who she said had just been moved to a different cell block. The grainy footage reviewed by Mississippi Today shows several men in green-and-white uniforms beating another man as he flails on the floor. At one point, one of the inmates stabs the man with a silver object.
When Nicole Gibson called the jail for answers about the attack – which she believes also targeted one of the other people accused in the killing at Pine Ridge Gardens Apartments – she said no one would tell her what happened…