NYS guards involved in the fatal attack on Robert Brooks earn six-figure salaries

Robert Brooks reportedly died at the hands of New York State Corrections employees — and perhaps even more shocking is that some officers are pulling in as much as six-figure salaries … TMZ has learned.

Brooks — an inmate at Marcy Correctional Facility in upstate New York — died of asphyxiation due to neck compression during the Dec. 9 attack by guards and other prison staff, according to a preliminary autopsy report.

Bodycam footage from staff showed how the… violent attack on Brooks, brutally beating the prisoner while restrained and gagged. Before his death, Brooks was serving a 12-year prison sentence for first-degree assault.

According to state employee compensation data obtained by TMZ … eight of the 14 Department of Corrections employees take home six-figure salaries and the rest take home between $70,000 and $89,000.

In 2022 or 2023, the annual income data reveals Sergeant Glenn Trombly earned $149,185; Officer David Kingsley II $147,745 hacked; Officer Matthew Galliher took out $114,375; Sergeant Michael Marshaw collected $105,672; Officer Christopher Walrath received $113,969; Officer Nicholas Kieffer earned $118,151; Officer Anthony Farina was paid $142,528; and nurse Kyle Dashnaw was compensated $110,087.

The other six corrections employees are paid less than $100,000 but still make a pretty good income. Here is the list of 2023 salaries for those officers: Nicholas Anzalone ($87,028), Robert Kessler ($89,248), Michael Visser ($85,143), Michael Langs ($88,333), Shea Schoff ($87,276) and David Walters ($70,423).

A spokesperson for the NYS Department of Corrections and Community Supervision tells TMZ … 13 of the employees have been suspended without pay and Farina has resigned.