{"id":496245,"date":"2026-10-14T22:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T22:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/496245\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T22:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T22:02:09","slug":"man-who-died-in-apparent-suicide-at-otay-mesa-jail-identified-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/496245\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who died in apparent suicide at Otay Mesa jail identified \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities on Wednesday identified an inmate who died last week in an apparent suicide at George Bailey Detention Facility in Otay Mesa.<\/p>\n<p>A sheriff\u2019s deputy conducting a security check at the jail found 34-year-old Brian Andrew Holmes hanging in his solo-occupancy cell shortly before 3:30 p.m. Oct. 8, according to the Sheriff\u2019s Office. He died at the scene despite lifesaving attempts.<\/p>\n<p>Holmes had been in custody since May following his arrest on sexual assault-related charges. His next court appearance had been scheduled for this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities on Wednesday identified an inmate who died last week in an apparent suicide at George Bailey Detention&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,138,181,23,100,28973,74,84,76,75,3055],"class_list":["post-496245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-otay-mesa","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-south-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496245","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=496245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}