NEW YORK — A Department of Correction officer was fired Monday after a Rikers Island inmate died of a suspected overdose.
Inmate Elijah Muhammad was found unresponsive inside the island’s George R. Vierno Center about 9:45 p.m. Sunday. He died at the jail, making him the 10th detainee to die in city custody this year.
It’s believed Muhammad, a native of Kentucky, had overdosed, possibly on fentanyl, sources with knowledge of the case said.
