RIKERS ISLAND INMATE INDICTED FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER; STABBED DETAINEE IN HEART WITH 7-INCH PLEXIGLASS SHARD

 

Victim Required Open Heart Surgery After Brutal Assault

Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced that a Rikers Island inmate was indicted on Attempted Murder in the second degree for stabbing another detainee in the chest and back, causing life-threatening injuries requiring open-heart surgery. 

District Attorney Clark said, “This vicious attack was caught on video, which showed the defendant allegedly stabbing the victim multiple times with a piece of plexiglass fashioned into a knife, causing life-threatening injuries. Department of Correction Officers swiftly stopped him before the victim was killed.” 

District Attorney Clark said Shane Delisle, 25, was arraigned on Attempted Murder in the second degree, two counts of second-degree Assault, two counts of first-degree Promoting Prison Contraband, third-degree Assault, two counts of fourth-degree Criminal Possession of a Weapon, and two counts of second-degree Promoting Prison Contraband before Bronx Supreme Court Justice Brenda Rivera. The defendant was remanded. He is due back in court on May 14, 2024. 

According to the investigation, on December 20, 2023, at approximately 8:34 p.m. inside the George R. Vierno Center, Delisle, allegedly a member of Gorilla Stone Bloods, allegedly stabbed inmate Charles Satterwhite, also allegedly of the Gorilla Stone Bloods, in the back and chest with a seven-inch plexiglass “knife.” Correction Officers were able to detain the defendant after using pepper spray. They allegedly recovered two plexiglass knives from Delisle’s cell. Satterwhite was transported to Elmhurst Hospital where he underwent open heart surgery. The defendant and victim are believed to have known each other before the incident.

District Attorney Clark thanked NYC Department of Correction Officer Omari Townsend and Investigators Paul Smith, Cecil Philips, and Nathaniel Williamson from the NYC Department of Correction Intelligence Bureau for their work in the investigation. 

An indictment is an accusatory instrument and not proof of a defendant’s guilt.