An criminal was stabbed to death next Thursday at , High Desert State Prison, according to the , Nevada Department of Corrections , and the boy’s family.
Hawk Urban, 27, who had been imprisoned on several battery charges, and his flatmate had an altercation, according to office spokesperson , Teri Vance.
Urban’s mom,  , Selma Belle, said her brother was incarcerated at , Ely State Prison, then , moved to , High Desert , somewhere around October.  , The Department of Corrections , just swapped nearly 2, 000 residents between the two organizations in the midst of an increase in group activity and violence.
Belle was informed that Urban and his flatmate were having an argument.
” Knives were brought out”, she said, adding,” I do n’t know who stabbed who first”.
” Fell through the splits,” the phrase.
As of Wednesday, nearly a week after her son’s death, Belle said the department had n’t been in touch with her. She’s angry about what happened and angry that she was n’t immediately notified, she said.
” I was not called”, she said. ” Nothing called me. I found out on my own”.
She claimed to have learned of the event from a daughter whose ex-boyfriend was currently incarcerated and that she had been informed by a niece’s daughter, who had confirmed the death on the prison site, which reads” INACTIVE-DEATH.”
Vance said a priest called Urban’s family, but did not reach her.
Vance claimed an interact warden was able to approach her after the Las Vegas Review-Journal contacted the department but that the lack of communication with Belle was” a total oversight.”
” It only sort of slipped through the breaks”, she said.
Family: Cellmates were friends
Belle even said the jail should’ve been watching residents more carefully.
How did they miss having their weapons it, they wondered? she asked.
Her brother and his cellmate had feuded, she said, and her son said not to respect his cellmate’s home. Belle said the flatmate was a sibling, his father was her aunt.
Vance said the two had requested to remain cellmates when they moved to , High Desert , and had also been cellmates at , Ely.
Belle described her brother as “always drinking and getting into trouble and things like that.” Although his mother claims that he recently hit another criminal and punched a police officer, she would tell him to behave himself.
Vance said the , Department of Corrections , may check the dying, and that could lead to the cellmate being charged. The situation may be referred to the Attorney General’s office to see what, if anything, the office did wrong, she said.
Doing well in captivity
After his father passed away, Belle described Urban as a polite individual who struggled to talk about his feelings. He was a member of the Goshute Tribe .
She tried to get him to join the military, but he did n’t want to do that. He became a cocaine user and “his funds often went to medications”, she said.
But he reacted positively to his imprisonment, complaining about his missing home and saying he missed them. His mom encouraged him by suggesting that he even considered enrolling in college courses online.
Urban would have been available for pardon in 2025, according to the criminal look-up website.
His mom thought that incarcerating him was safer than living alone.
” This should’ve always happened”, she said. ” They previously should’ve been cellmates”.
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