‘Just ran up and punched her’: Rikers CO knocked unconscious in unprovoked attack

New York Daily News

NEW YORK — The Correction Department officer slugged by a man held at Rikers Island for also sucker-punching an MTA station agent suffered a fractured eye socket and remains in the hospital, but is on the mend, her sisters said Wednesday.

The officer, Shamika Mitchell was initially thought to need emergency surgery after she was allegedly attacked by Robert Ray on Saturday evening at the Otis Bantum Correctional Center. But her condition has improved significantly…

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