{"id":178971,"date":"2026-02-15T10:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T10:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/178971\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T10:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T10:38:10","slug":"oakland-woman-dies-in-visitor-lobby-of-santa-rita-jail-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/178971\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland woman dies in visitor lobby of Santa Rita Jail in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Alameda County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is investigating the death of a woman in the public lobby of the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin early Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dequita Grace Harrell, 36, of Oakland was found unresponsive in the women&#8217;s restroom in the jail lobby around 5:25 a.m., the sheriff&#8217;s office said. Deputies rendered lifesaving measures and summoned emergency medical personnel, but she was declared dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Harrell was believed to be at the jail awaiting the release of an incarcerated person, and this is not considered to be an in-custody death, the sheriff&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While there were no signs of foul play, Harrell&#8217;s official cause of death will be determined by a forensic pathologist, said the sheriff&#8217;s office, which notified her next of kin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/santa-rita-jail-death-21354448.php?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=yahoo_syndication\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Oakland woman dies in visitor lobby of Santa Rita Jail in Dublin;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Oakland woman dies in visitor lobby of Santa Rita Jail in Dublin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Alameda County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is investigating the death of a woman in the public lobby of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[84939,7626,84940,143,145,144,69657],"class_list":{"0":"post-178971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-dequita-grace-harrell","9":"tag-dublin","10":"tag-jail-lobby","11":"tag-oakland","12":"tag-oakland-headlines","13":"tag-oakland-news","14":"tag-santa-rita-jail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}