A 37-year-old Oakland woman died while in custody at Santa Rita Jail, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said Friday.
Kenyonna Farr was booked into the Dublin jail for a court order violation at around 4:45 p.m. Tuesday, the sheriff’s office said.
On Thursday, deputies took Farr to an area of jail used to transport people to court hearings. But at 7 a.m. that morning, she was found unconscious in her holding cell, the sheriff’s office said.
Farr was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital and, once cleared at about 12:30 p.m., brought back to Santa Rita.
Hours later, at 3:42 a.m. Friday morning, deputies again found Farr unconscious in her cell.
Jailers “immediately” began life-saving measures and requested emergency medical services, the sheriff’s office said. But ambulance medics pronounced Farr dead at 4:18 a.m. Friday.
Her cause of death will be determined after the completion of an autopsy, which includes toxicology testing, the sheriff’s office said.
Farr is the 76th person to die in custody at the jail since 2014, according to KTVU, but the first person to die in custody this year.
Last month, 36-year-old Dequita Grace Harrell, also of Oakland, was found dead in the women’s restroom of the jail’s lobby. She was at the facility to visit an inmate, authorities said.
Farr’s death has been reported to the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, the sheriff’s office said, but per state law must also be reported to the California Attorney General’s office.
This article originally published at Oakland woman dies after three days at Santa Rita Jail.