Detroit Gang Tries To Kill Butch Baltierra In Jail

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Butch Baltierra is lucky to be alive after a series of violent jailhouse attacks by members of a southwest Detroit gang.

On December 11 2012, Tyler’s trouble-prone dad was struck in the head and “knocked out” by a metal lock wrapped inside a tube sock.

Several weeks later, Butch tells us, members of the Latin Counts crew snuck up from behind and stabbed him multiple times, leaving cuts on his hands and face.

“The next day they told me to get off the yard,” he says. “I told them I wasn’t goin’ nowhere and they’d have to take me out in a body bag. I said ‘Let’s just fight. I’ll take two or three of you in the bathroom.’ They didn’t want to do that, so they snuck up behind me while I was laying on my bunk and poured hot sugar water on me. They got me pretty good. Burned the shite out of me. They snuck up behind me. Hit the back of my head and my right back arm. The inside of my scalp got burned pretty good.”

After receiving medical treatment, Butch was moved to a different facility, in nearby Jackson, Michigan, for his own safety. The violence began, Butch says, after he confronted gang members who stole a television set from another prisoner who suffers from Cerebral Palsay and is confined to a wheelchair.

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