7 adult men have been billed in the demise of Eric L. Vigil, a 40-yr-aged inmate who was beaten to death on Nov. 1 while in custody at the San Miguel County Detention Center.

All seven guys are charged with very first-diploma murder, conspiracy to commit 1st-degree murder and tampering with evidence.

The adult males charged are: Conrad J. Atencio, 25 Daniel J. Magallanes, 22 Nathan E. Pacheco, 25 Dathian L. Lucero, 24 Devin F. Morales, 21 Pierre A. Lovato, 44 and Joaquin W. Richardson, 19.

Atencio and Lovato just about every deal with an more depend of conspiracy to commit tampering with evidence.

The costs ended up filed Monday in San Miguel Magistrate Court docket, adhering to a two-7 days investigation by the Las Vegas Police Office. Just after interviewing witnesses and viewing surveillance video, investigators identified all 7 men had taken section in the dying of Vigil inside of mobile 232 of Echo Pod at the detention centre.

The jail’s team was first alerted to a dilemma when Magallanes identified as the jail’s grasp manage to say another inmate experienced slipped and fallen, in accordance to various arrest affidavits submitted in San Miguel Magistrate Courtroom. Corrections officers arrived to obtain Vigil unresponsive on the ground of the mobile.

The pod was positioned on lockdown as corrections officers and healthcare staff entered the cell. Vigil was positioned facedown on the floor of the cell and experienced “extensive accidents,” in accordance to the affidavits. He also appeared to not be respiratory.

Vigil was transported to Alta Vista Regional Healthcare facility, wherever he later died.

Investigators found a large blood stain on the ground of cell 232, and located what was thought to be pieces of human flesh beneath the bunk beds and on the partitions, in accordance to the affidavits.

Surveillance video showed 8 adult males and Vigil enter the cell — identified as the “big gentleman cell” — just ahead of a struggle began. A person of the adult males recognized by investigators has not been charged. The affidavits indicate the male was not viewed fighting in the surveillance footage, and that he did not have any bodily signals of being involved in the altercation.

Monday evening, Fourth Judicial District Lawyer Tom Clayton told the Optic he could not comment on the situation right up until he’d achieved with LVPD investigators, which he predicted to do on Tuesday.

According to Clayton, all seven males have been scheduled to seem in court Tuesday afternoon for arraignment hearings.

 

Movie Footage

 

The affidavits include things like a detailed description of what the jail’s cameras captured that day.

In accordance to the affidavits, movie recordings confirmed Atencio, Pacheco, Magallanes and Lucero “pacing back and forth” as Vigil sat on a table in the center of the area. Meanwhile, Pacheco was going in and out of several cells, “staying a short period in each mobile he entered.”

After SMCDC employees gathered the food trays, Vigil walked in excess of to Atencio and Magallanes and exchanged some text with them.

Atencio, Magallanes, Morales, Lucero, Pacheco, and Richardson surrounded Vigil, although Lovato and the guy who is not dealing with expenses stood at the top of the stairs, seeking down, like they were being “waiting for one thing to transpire.”

Vigil walked up the stairs and entered cell 232. Vigil talked to Atencio, then approached Magallanes who “suddenly” hit Vigil in the experience with his proper hand.

Vigil fell to the ground as the other gentlemen rushed inside of the cell. They dragged Vigil to the middle of the cell and “multiple individuals” punched and kicked him.

The combat lasted just 62 seconds prior to everybody, except Vigil, exited the mobile. Minutes later on, Magallanes contacted grasp regulate and reported an inmate had fallen.

 

Vigil’s Earlier

 

Vigil, also recognised as “Eric Builder” and “Scare Bear,” experienced been charged in connection with the 2007 taking pictures deaths of two New Mexico Highlands College pupils, 25-12 months-aged Stephanie Dimas and 24-calendar year-aged Damian Ortiz.

Dimas and Ortiz have been discovered dead of gunshot wounds in their home a couple days in advance of Christmas in 2007. Prosecutors alleged Vigil was one particular of two shooters and billed him with two counts of very first-degree murder, but when Vigil went on trial in September 2013, a jury unanimously discovered Vigil not responsible on all counts.

Months before, in August 2012, Michael “Baby Diablo” Vigal recognized a plea arrangement and pleaded responsible to each murders. Vigal is serving a 30-calendar year sentence at the Penitentiary of New Mexico in Santa Fe.

In June of 2020, Vigil was arrested all over again immediately after becoming accused of pointing a gun at a gentleman, as well as choking and beating him, within a Las Vegas motel room.

Vigil had been in custody at SMCDC due to the fact June of this year soon after he was arrested following a months-extensive look for for a 30-calendar year-aged girl he was suspected of using hostage.

Vigil and the girl ended up located right after a property proprietor close to Sapello termed police to say Vigil and the missing woman experienced arrive to her home seeking a area to remain. She authorized them to camp on her house, but reported when Vigil confirmed a handgun to her 16-calendar year-previous baby, she contacted police.

Vigil was arrested at the residence June 7. During a research, they positioned a handgun that matched the description offered by the house owner. Vigil was booked into SMCDC on superb arrest warrants, and was afterwards charged with becoming a felon in possession of a firearm.

 

Combat Aftermath

 

Final results of an autopsy showed Vigil died of blunt power trauma to the face and head, which caused “massive bleeding” in Vigil’s brain, according to the affidavits.

Various of these charged in Vigil’s loss of life instructed investigators that, the working day of his loss of life, Vigil had been “acting aggressive” towards many others in the pod.

Inmates explained to investigators that Vigil was “a bully” who would check out to get started fights. A person person said others in the pod deemed Vigil to be a perilous male.

Pacheco advised investigators that he considered the only way anybody was heading to arrive out of the cell alive was to have everyone bounce Vigil, evaluating the combat to the biblical story of David and Goliath, according to the affidavits. He refused to tell investigators which of the adult males associated threw punches or who delivered the deadly blow or blows.

The man who has not been charged informed investigators that he was “grossed out” looking at the combat, and that “there were teeth just about everywhere,” according to the affidavits. When law enforcement asked him for aspects about each and every inmate’s involvement in the beating, the man claimed, “Everyone was hitting him.”