Virginia deputies charged in man’s death at mental hospital
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Death of Black detainee allegedly suffocated by sheriff’s deputies at Virginia mental hospital prompts multiple murder charges
Three former staff members of a mental hospital in Virginia were arrested and charged Thursday with second-degree murder in connection with the death of a man who was brought to the institution from jail earlier this month. According to Dinwiddie County Commonwealth Attorney Ann Cabell Baskervill, Irvo Otieno, 28, passed away on March 6 while he was being admitted to Central State Hospital in Petersburg about 25 miles south of Richmond. Otieno c…
Ten charged in 'tortured' death of Virginia man at mental hospital
Ten people have been charged in the death of Irvo Otieno, a Virginia man who died on March 6 in Dinwiddie County after being handcuffed, shackled, and pinned to the ground by deputies while experiencing a mental health crisis first at a local jail and then at a state hospital, according to Otieno's relatives and their attorneys.
Three former Virginia hospital staff charged with murder in death of Black man
Three former employees of a mental hospital in Virginia were arrested and charged with second-degree murder on Thursday, a prosecutor said, over the death of a Black man who was transported to the facility from jail earlier this month.
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