An Oakland man died at Santa Rita Jail Saturday after being released from the hospital an hour earlier, marking the jail\u2019s third in-custody death this year and the second within a week.<\/p>\n
The Alameda County Sheriff\u2019s Office announced that 44-year-old Oakland resident Jeffrey Bryce McMaster died Saturday afternoon after collapsing in the restroom at Santa Rita Jail\u2019s outpatient facility, as KTVU reports<\/a>. Staff attempted lifesaving measures, but he was pronounced dead at about 12:45 p.m.<\/p>\n McMaster had returned to the jail roughly an hour earlier after being discharged from a local hospital, where he had been treated following a seizure in his cell on May 28. He had been in custody since February 3 on a murder charge connected to the fatal beating of another resident at an Oakland residential hotel, according to the East Bay Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n His cause of death remains under investigation pending an autopsy and toxicology testing.<\/p>\n As SFist reported<\/a> last week, 37-year-old Brandon Anthony Josep Watson of San Francisco also died at the jail after being transferred from Monterey County Jail in connection with a California Highway Patrol vehicle theft investigation. Deputies found him unresponsive in a dormitory housing unit after he failed to report for breakfast the following morning.<\/p>\n In March, 37-year-old Oakland resident Kenyonna Farr<\/a> died in a holding cell one day after being released from a hospital and three days after being transferred to Santa Rita Jail. Additionally, 36-year-old Dequita Grace Harrell died while visiting an inmate in the jail lobby in February.<\/p>\n As previously reported, three sheriff’s deputies were indicted last December in connection with the 2021 death of Maurice Monk<\/a>, who was arrested for not wearing a mask and had been dead at the jail for at least 72 hours before he was found.<\/p>\n McMaster’s death is the 78th in-custody death at Santa Rita Jail since 2014.<\/p>\n Previously: Authorities Probe Death of SF Man Found Unresponsive Day After Transfer to Santa Rita Jail<\/a><\/p>\n