article_snippet: A Nevada prison inmate was handcuffed when was shot and killed by a guard November, according to a lawyer who said Wednesday that A Nevada prison inmate client was wounded in the same shooting but survived.
article_snippet: Inmate Andrew Jay Arevalo was also handcuffed and 'miraculously survived three shotgun blasts to the face,' attorney Alexis Plunkett said. '
article_snippet: This is what I clearly consider to be an excessive use of force,' Inmate Andrew Jay Arevalo said in an email to The Associated Press.
article_snippet: attorney Alexis Plunkett said Inmate Andrew Jay Arevalo represents Arevalo, not Perez, and plans to sue a guard, prison officials and the state. '
article_snippet: Nevada prisons chief Greg Cox said in a statement issued after his ruling became public that Andrew Jay Arevalo and Perez were fighting when a guard at High Desert State Prison opened fire.
article_snippet: Perez and Arevalo were handcuffed, but prison guards opened fire on each.
article_snippet: Arevalo, 24, pleaded guilty in June 2013 in Las Vegas to burglary and was sentenced in August 2013 to two to six years in prison.
article_snippet: At the state Legislature in Carson City, elected officials were surprised Wednesday to learn that a prison guard shot and killed an inmate a full 19 weeks earlier.
highlights_snippet: Shot dead inside High Desert State Prison in Indian Springs in November .
  
highlights_snippet: That inmate, Andrew Jay Arevalo, was shot three times in the face but survived .
  