{"id":64559,"date":"2025-11-22T01:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T01:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/64559\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T01:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T01:16:07","slug":"san-diego-central-jail-inmate-found-dead-in-july-died-of-natural-causes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/64559\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Central Jail inmate found dead in July died of natural causes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/SDcentraljail-1-e1639586058720.jpeg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SDcentraljail-1.jpeg\" alt=\"San Diego Central Jail\" class=\"wp-image-169226\"\/><\/a>The Sheriff\u2019s intake at the San Diego Central Jail is shown on March 11, 2021. (File photo courtesy Zo\u00eb Meyers\/inewsource)<\/p>\n<p>An octogenarian who died last summer at San Diego Central Jail succumbed to natural causes, authorities reported Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegocounty.gov\/content\/sdc\/me.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Medical Examiner\u2019s Office<\/a> ruled that <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/crime\/2025\/08\/01\/elderly-inmate-found-dead-at-central-jail-identified-as-karim-talib\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Karim Talib<\/a> died of hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease complicated by an acute kidney infection.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies distributing medication to inmates at the detention center found Talib, 82, unconscious and unresponsive in his cell on the morning of July 28, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdsheriff.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jailers performed CPR prior to the arrival of paramedics, who took over the lifesaving attempts before pronouncing Talib dead at the scene, Lt. Juan Marquez said.<\/p>\n<p>Talib had been in custody for about two months, facing charges of mayhem, assault with a deadly weapon and elder abuse. He was awaiting a mental-competency hearing.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sheriff\u2019s intake at the San Diego Central Jail is shown on March 11, 2021. (File photo courtesy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[38782,38783,74,37825,5305,18334,76,75],"class_list":["post-64559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-cause-of-death","tag-inmate-deaths","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-central-jail","tag-san-diego-county-medical-examiners-office","tag-san-diego-county-sheriffs-department","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64559","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=64559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}