A San Diego Central Jail inmate died over the weekend after going into medical distress, authorities said Monday.<\/p>\n
The 62-year-old man became disoriented for unknown reasons in a communal room at the detention center shortly before 2:30 p.m. Sunday, according to the Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was immediately escorted to the facility\u2019s medical clinic for evaluation,\u201d Lt. Juan Marquez said. \u201cWhile in the clinic, (he) went into medical distress, prompting medical staff and deputies to initiate lifesaving measures.\u201d<\/p>\n
Paramedics then took the man to a hospital, where he died about 9:15 p.m. The Medical Examiner\u2019s Office will determine the cause and manner of death.<\/p>\n
\u201cA sheriff\u2019s family-liaison officer has been assigned to support the family during this difficult time,\u201d Marquez said.<\/p>\n
The man, whose name was withheld pending family notification, had been in custody since last November, facing charges of assault with a deadly weapon, issuing criminal threats and resisting arrest.<\/p>\n
Sheriff\u2019s homicide detectives will investigate the death, which is protocol for all in-custody deaths. The Citizens\u2019 Law Enforcement Review Board has also been notified of the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Diego Central Jail inmate died over the weekend after going into medical distress, authorities said Monday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478674,"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-478673","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\/478673","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=478673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}