{"id":390978,"date":"2026-07-08T19:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/390978\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T19:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:19:07","slug":"autopsy-determines-45-year-old-san-diego-jail-inmate-died-of-natural-causes-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/390978\/","title":{"rendered":"Autopsy determines 45-year-old San Diego jail inmate died of natural causes \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

Authorities have determined the cause and manner of death of a 45-year-old inmate who died in March after fainting while in custody at the San Diego Central Jail, sheriff\u2019s officials said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Several inmates had alerted deputies on March 15<\/a> around 4:20 a.m. that Drahkee House fainted and needed medical assistance. Officials said he was taken to the facility\u2019s medical clinic before he was transported to a nearby hospital.<\/p>\n

He went into medical distress while en route, and paramedics\u00a0performed life-saving measures, but House died at the hospital an hour later, sheriff\u2019s officials said.<\/p>\n

The Medical Examiner\u2019s Office determined House died from an unprovoked pulmonary thromboembolism \u2014 when a blood clot blocks an artery in the lungs. They also identified morbid obesity as a factor. The manner of death was classified as natural, officials\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

House had been in sheriff\u2019s custody since April 22, 2024, following his arrest by the California Highway Patrol on an illegal weapon charge. The next day, CHP filed murder charges in an unrelated case. San Diego police also added charges of robbery and assault with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n

He was found guilty of murder, attempted murder and robbery and scheduled to be sentenced in May.<\/p>\n

The sheriff\u2019s homicide unit is conducting an investigation, per protocol for in-custody deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities have determined the cause and manner of death of a 45-year-old inmate who died in March after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,138,5196,181,23,100,74,84,76,75],"class_list":["post-390978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-downtown-san-diego","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390978","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=390978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}