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The mother of Roberto Grant, Crecita Williams, stands by his tombstone with Grant's nephew Jeremiah.
Scott Heins / Gothamist
It was May 2015, and Roberto Grant had pleaded guilty to taking part in a series of luxury watch store heists. He was awaiting sentencing at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, the federal jail in lower Manhattan, when he died a violent death. An autopsy released a year and a half later listed his cause of death as “undetermined.”
Grant’s family says MCC administrators and their superiors at the federal Bureau of Prisons misled them about what really happened the night he died. And they are demanding answers.