Pipe-attack suspect struck by 2 fellow inmates

[Judi Lynn]

May 11, 2006, 12:46AM
Pipe-attack suspect struck by 2 fellow inmates
LULAC urges government to consider widening hate crime statute

By BILL MURPHY and PEGGY O'HARE
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

One of the two teens charged in the brutal beating of a 17-year-old Hispanic youth in Spring last month was assaulted by two fellow Harris County inmates days after he was jailed, a Sheriff's Office spokesman said Wednesday.
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Prosecutors said the pair tortured the victim, beat him senseless and kicked a plastic pipe into his rectum, causing internal injuries.
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That report, along with the brutality of the attack, has drawn national attention to the assault as a possible hate crime.
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Hearing a commotion, detention officers rushed to the cell block. "We observed inmate Tuck standing in front of the cell block door, holding the back of his head with his right hand and holding his mouth with his left hand," a detention officer wrote in a report obtained by the Houston Chronicle.
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Sheriff's Office records identified the inmates who attacked Tuck as Christopher McDaniel, 19, who is black, and Joseph Stone, also 19, who is white.
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They will not face charges for assaulting Tuck, but will likely lose visitation or commissary privileges, Martin said. Inmate-on-inmate assaults often don't result in charges, he said.
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