A 37-year-old Oakland woman died while in custody at Santa Rita Jail, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said Friday.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, deputies took\u00a0Farr 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.<\/p>\n
Farr was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital and, once cleared at about 12:30 p.m., brought back to Santa Rita.<\/p>\n
Hours later, at 3:42 a.m. Friday morning, deputies again found Farr unconscious in her cell.<\/p>\n
Jailers “immediately” began life-saving measures and requested emergency medical services, the sheriff’s office said. But ambulance medics pronounced\u00a0Farr dead at 4:18 a.m. Friday.<\/p>\n
Her cause of death will be determined after the completion of an autopsy, which includes toxicology testing, the sheriff’s office said.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Last month, 36-year-old\u00a0Dequita Grace Harrell, also of Oakland, was found dead in the women’s restroom <\/a>of the jail’s lobby. She was at the facility to visit an inmate, authorities said.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n