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Courtesy of Graham Injury Firm(NEW YORK) The family of an incarcerated man allegedly killed by his cellmate in a Broward jail is demanding answers.
Janard Geffrard, 29, was allegedly killed by cellmate 35-year-old Kevin Barnes after a Dec. 16 beating, according to his family s attorney, Josiah Graham.
Barnes, who investigators say confessed to the beating, said he did it because the victim was "gay," according to the probable cause affidavit obtained by ABC News. Geffrard was an out gay man, Graham said.
"The news of his death was obviously a complete shock to the family," said Graham in an interview. "His mom is particularly devastated. Because this is her firstborn son."
Graham added that Geffrard was also a father to a 10-year-old son who celebrated his first birthday without his father Tuesday.
He continued, "It s nothing that any parent should go through, hearing the fact that your child passed away is one thing, but to hear that they were