I believe I watched him die, says former inmate as murder charges filed against Missouri corrections officers [Video]

Five former corrections officers are facing a combination of assault, manslaughter and murder charges over the December 8, 2023, death of Othel Moore Jr., a former inmate at a maximum security prison in Jefferson City, Missouri, according to newly released indictments.

The officers were part of a Corrections Emergency Response Team (CERT), which are specially trained units designed to deal with violent prison situations, at the Jefferson City Correctional Center.

A former inmate at the correctional center tells CNN he witnessed officers create the violent circumstances that killed the 39-year-old Moore, whose 2023 death forms part of an especially deadly year in Missouri prisons.

“I never watched anybody die before,” Jordan Seller, 27, told CNN, as he explained the events leading to Moore’s death began with what was supposed to be a routine search …