{"id":353287,"date":"2026-06-09T16:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/353287\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T16:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:18:10","slug":"oakland-murder-suspect-dies-after-medical-emergency-at-santa-rita-jail-deputies-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/353287\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland murder suspect dies after medical emergency at Santa Rita Jail, deputies say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Oakland man suspected of murder died over the weekend following an apparent medical emergency inside the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, after he spent several days in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Alameda County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, 44-year-old Jeffrey Bryce McMaster was booked into jail on suspicion of murder on the morning of Feb. 3. Around 5:20 a.m. on May 28, deputies conducting a welfare check found McMaster experiencing an apparent seizure inside his cell.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies and jail medical staff rendered aid and requested emergency medical services, the sheriff&#8217;s office said. McMaster was taken by ambulance to a local hospital for further treatment.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, McMaster was medically discharged and transported back to Santa Rita Jail. Around 11:40 a.m., McMaster was undergoing a medical screening and asked to go to the restroom.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies escorted McMaster to a nearby cell with a restroom. A short time later, deputies heard a noise coming from the cell and found McMaster on the floor suffering from a medical emergency.<\/p>\n<p>Jail staff and emergency medical personnel attempted life-saving measures, but McMaster was pronounced dead around 12:46 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office said McMaster&#8217;s cause of death will be determined following an autopsy and any necessary toxicology testing. Both the Alameda County District Attorney&#8217;s Office and the California Attorney General&#8217;s Office are being notified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Oakland man suspected of murder died over the weekend following an apparent medical emergency inside the Santa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,7626,134,17332,1331,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-353287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-dublin","tag-homicide","tag-inmate-death","tag-murder","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353287","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=353287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}