Jailed driver is beaten to death in Sherburne county

[NFS4]

http://www.startribune.com/467/story/605419.html

Jailed driver is beaten to death in Sherburne county
He had been arrested in Sherburne County on a traffic stop, and because he had no proof of insurance, he was jailed to await a court appearance.
Howie Padilla and Mike Kaszuba, Star Tribune

Carl Moyle didn't have a reliable way to get to his new job detailing cars for a dealership, so his younger brother offered up his truck.
Before he got to work Tuesday morning, an Elk River police officer stopped him for a cracked windshield and a few other minor violations.

Unable to provide proof of insurance for the pickup and carrying a history of convictions for moving violations, Moyle was jailed.

By day's end, he was beaten to death on a bunk by an inmate who broke a metal handicap railing off a cell wall, authorities said.

His younger brother, Byron Moyle, was left bewildered Wednesday, wondering exactly how this happened to Carl, who the family believes was sleeping in his cell, awaiting a Thursday morning court appearance.

"It's ludicrous," Byron Moyle said, his voice breaking as he choked back tears.

Sherburne County Sheriff Bruce Anderson said Wednesday night that he, too, had unanswered questions.

The man suspected in Carl Moyle's death arrived in the Sherburne County jail Tuesday morning, charged with second-degree assault, Anderson said.

What was not disclosed to his deputies was that the assault happened at the St. Cloud prison in April, Anderson said.

While Anderson declined to name him, authorities told Moyle's family members that the suspect was Bruce Christenson. He is a 28-year-old inmate at the Oak Park Heights prison who was taken to the Sherburne County Jail Tuesday morning for a court hearing scheduled for Wednesday on an assault charge.

Anderson said that with no known reason to put the suspect in isolation, he was placed in the general population, in a pod of 15 cells where Carl Moyle was.

There also were no red flags at the jail in the hours leading up to the assault, Anderson said. Even two minutes before Moyle was beaten, the suspect seemed normal to guards, the sheriff said.

Byron Moyle said he and his family were told by Anderson that the suspect was seen holding his head in his hands in his cell just before the beating.

Seconds later, the suspect, who was in a cell designed to be handicapped accessible, apparently stood on a commode and kicked a metal bar loose from the wall, Anderson said. The inmate hid the bar in his pants as he walked to the cell where Carl Moyle was lying on his top bunk, his face to the wall.

Drawing the bar from his pants, he used it to repeatedly beat Moyle's skull about 9:20 p.m., Anderson said.

Deputies saw the commotion on camera and were there within minutes, Anderson said.

Moyle was taken to Mercy Hospital, where he died about an hour later.

Investigators haven't been able to find any signs that Moyle and the suspect had any interaction, Anderson said.

"Everybody did what they were to do," Anderson said. He said this was the first homicide in the jail in his 12 years as sheriff.

Christenson's criminal history includes convictions for second-degree burglary, escape and first-degree aggravated armed robbery. He had been held in segregation in Oak Park Heights and has been returned to segregation.

His father, Rodney Christenson, said that Bruce had been in and out of jail for most of his life. He said his son recently wrote him a letter in which Bruce said he was looking forward to being integrated with the general population.

Rodney Christenson knew nothing about the most recent allegations against his son when reached on his cell phone Wednesday, but said that Bruce had planned to represent himself in some coming litigation.

'Could have been any guy'

Elk River Police Chief Jeff Beahen said Carl Moyle was cooperative when he was arrested Tuesday morning in the traffic stop. The arresting officers told Moyle that they would try to write up the report quickly so he might be able to get a court hearing the same day, but they weren't able to do that, Beahen said.

"This guy could have been any guy," he said of Moyle. "It's tragic."

That Carl would have found any means of getting to work doesn't surprise those who knew him best. Kay Hultman, with whose family Carl lived for about a year, said she remembered him as a hard-working kid with a good heart.

"Sometimes it would be a snowmobile, sometimes hitching a ride with a co-worker," she said. She remembered Moyle, a close friend of her two sons, coming to her house, down on his luck and needing a place to stay.

"We told him for 100 bucks a month he could stay with us," she said. "I became another mother to him. He was my third son."

Hultman proudly recalled Wednesday seeing Carl Moyle grow into adulthood. She remembered his elation at the births of his sons and his sorrow when the first died.

"He was a great person," Byron said of his brother. "He was a good friend to a lot of people."

Hultman's son, Darcell Danzeisen, said that it feels like he has lost a brother. He remembers dreams the two had of opening their own stereo shop.

"I guess my frustration is with the jail," Danzeisen said. "My anger is with the fella that committed this crime."

Sheriff Anderson said he met with the family Wednesday to console and try to explain what happened.

"They're mad at law enforcement," he said. "They're mad at the system. I'm sure they're not happy, and they're hurting and they should [be]."


Staff writer Myron P. Medcalf contributed to this report.

 

[Ika]

Another day, another senseless death...

 

[krunchykrome]

meh

 

[dug777]

Sounds like a Dean Koontz story

 

[Rudee]

Probably mouthed off the other inmate and got a whoopin'.

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Originally posted by: Rudee
Probably mouthed off the other inmate and got a whoopin'.

Ding ding ding.

 

[michaels]

It's George Bush's fault..oh and Haliburton's. It's a vast conspiracy from the far right to eliminate those who don't partake in Big Insurance.

 

[jpeyton]

Anything to meet that quota.

You have to pay the departments bills somehow.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl

Originally posted by: Rudee
Probably mouthed off the other inmate and got a whoopin'.

Ding ding ding.

Uhh, no:

There also were no red flags at the jail in the hours leading up to the assault, Anderson said. Even two minutes before Moyle was beaten, the suspect seemed normal to guards, the sheriff said.

Byron Moyle said he and his family were told by Anderson that the suspect was seen holding his head in his hands in his cell just before the beating.

Seconds later, the suspect, who was in a cell designed to be handicapped accessible, apparently stood on a commode and kicked a metal bar loose from the wall, Anderson said. The inmate hid the bar in his pants as he walked to the cell where Carl Moyle was lying on his top bunk, his face to the wall.

Drawing the bar from his pants, he used it to repeatedly beat Moyle's skull about 9:20 p.m., Anderson said.

They had it on tape.

 

[Rudee]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl

Originally posted by: Rudee
Probably mouthed off the other inmate and got a whoopin'.

Ding ding ding.

Uhh, no:

There also were no red flags at the jail in the hours leading up to the assault, Anderson said. Even two minutes before Moyle was beaten, the suspect seemed normal to guards, the sheriff said.

Byron Moyle said he and his family were told by Anderson that the suspect was seen holding his head in his hands in his cell just before the beating.

Seconds later, the suspect, who was in a cell designed to be handicapped accessible, apparently stood on a commode and kicked a metal bar loose from the wall, Anderson said. The inmate hid the bar in his pants as he walked to the cell where Carl Moyle was lying on his top bunk, his face to the wall.

Drawing the bar from his pants, he used it to repeatedly beat Moyle's skull about 9:20 p.m., Anderson said.

They had it on tape.

Just because the guards didn't notice anything unusual before the killing it doesn't mean the guy didn't mouth the other guy off. He most likely said something or gave a gesture to the other inmate when other guards were not looking. If you are going to kill another inmate you certainly don't want to attract attention to yourself, thus I can understand why the guards say the suspect acted normally before the killing. I would too!

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

And the moral of the story is:

Get your sh!t together so you can buy your own car + insurance and keep your nose clean so when you do f*ck up the cops don't find a laundry list of priors and they probably let you go with a warning.

Of course, there is the alternative...

/thread

 

[SludgeFactory]

Originally posted by: Rudee
Just because the guards didn't notice anything unusual before the killing it doesn't mean the guy didn't mouth the other guy off. He most likely said something or gave a gesture to the other inmate when other guards were not looking. If you are going to kill another inmate you certainly don't want to attract attention to yourself, thus I can understand why the guards say the suspect acted normally before the killing. I would too!

Uh, this is county jail in suburban Minneapolis, not Oz...

Most likely the career criminal Christenson instigated whatever did or didn't lead up to him murdering a sleeping person with a metal bar. The fact that he wasn't back home in PMITA prison where he belongs after nearly killing another inmate with a razor is a joke. That kid should never have had to worry about getting along with animals of that caliber for the few hours he should have been in there.

 

[Ramma2]

I did my internship at Sherburne County, it was in the building that housed the county offices as well as the county jail. I had to go into the jail once because the computer that controlled the cell doors was locked up and all the cells were open.

I'm pretty sure every inmate in that place stared me down during the entire time I worked on that machine. Not a fun time!

 

[Xylitol]

Ugh that inmate should die

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: JoLLyRoGer
And the moral of the story is:

Get your sh!t together so you can buy your own car + insurance and keep your nose clean so when you do f*ck up the cops don't find a laundry list of priors and they probably let you go with a warning.

Of course, there is the alternative...

/thread

Yes, the moral of the story is not having auto insurance means you should be beaten to death. WTF are you talking about? It said he had moving violations in his past, not rape convictions. There's no moral to this story...except maybe that its not safe to sleep in a jail cell.

 

[UNCjigga]

Originally posted by: JoLLyRoGer
And the moral of the story is:

Get your sh!t together so you can buy your own car + insurance and keep your nose clean so when you do f*ck up the cops don't find a laundry list of priors and they probably let you go with a warning.

Of course, there is the alternative...

/thread

Cliffs: Karma's a bitch, ain't she?

 

[newbiepcuser]

Dam sad....

 

[daveymark]

yet another reason why you shouldn't break the law. if ethics don't motivate you, maybe this will.

 

[PrinceofWands]

We desperately need to get rid of the insurance system in the US. They all have FAR too much power and it should never be allowed to make it mandatory.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Originally posted by: PingSpike

Originally posted by: JoLLyRoGer
And the moral of the story is:

Get your sh!t together so you can buy your own car + insurance and keep your nose clean so when you do f*ck up the cops don't find a laundry list of priors and they probably let you go with a warning.

Of course, there is the alternative...

/thread

Yes, the moral of the story is not having auto insurance means you should be beaten to death. WTF are you talking about? It said he had moving violations in his past, not rape convictions. There's no moral to this story...except maybe that its not safe to sleep in a jail cell.

Quoted for the motherfvckin' truth

 

[fbrdphreak]

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
We desperately need to get rid of the insurance system in the US. They all have FAR too much power and it should never be allowed to make it mandatory.

Yeah, 'cuz that's the problem here

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl

Originally posted by: Rudee
Probably mouthed off the other inmate and got a whoopin'.

Ding ding ding.

...after mouthing off to the cop. Unless he had warrants on him... I never heard of someone being sent to the slammer for having no proof of insurance.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: rudder

Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl

Originally posted by: Rudee
Probably mouthed off the other inmate and got a whoopin'.

Ding ding ding.

...after mouthing off to the cop. Unless he had warrants on him... I never heard of someone being sent to the slammer for having no proof of insurance.

Does no one read anymore?

Unable to provide proof of insurance for the pickup and carrying a history of convictions for moving violations, Moyle was jailed.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: rudder

Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl

Originally posted by: Rudee
Probably mouthed off the other inmate and got a whoopin'.

Ding ding ding.

...after mouthing off to the cop. Unless he had warrants on him... I never heard of someone being sent to the slammer for having no proof of insurance.

Me either. My friend tried to outrun the cops and slid his car into some telephone equipment and he didn't go to jail so I'm trying to figure out why he was tossed in a jail cell with some convicted inmate to begin with.

 

[PrinceofWands]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
We desperately need to get rid of the insurance system in the US. They all have FAR too much power and it should never be allowed to make it mandatory.

Yeah, 'cuz that's the problem here

Well, if there weren't the requirement for insurance, he wouldn't have been arrested. End problem.