Rebecca Hillman is the first correction officer convicted and incarcerated for committing criminally negligent homicide on the job, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office said.
NYC Correction Department Capt. Rebecca Hillman stopped Ofc. Oscar Rojo from entering the cell when Ryan Wilson tied a noose around his neck fashioned out of a white bed sheet, affixed it to a light fixture, and jumped.
City Correction Captain Rebecca Hillman declined to let anyone intervene before Ryan Wilson tied a noose around his neck and after he hung himself in his cell at the Manhattan Detention Complex on Nov. 22, 2020, Assistant District Attorney Matthew Sears said.