\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe death of an inmate who was assaulted at the Allegheny County Jail is under investigation by police and jail officials.County police said the 44-year-old inmate was assaulted by “multiple incarcerated people” who entered his jail cell just before 12:50 p.m. Wednesday. The inmate was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.”Everyone involved in this incident is accounted for and the investigation is ongoing at this time,” county police said in a statement.Defense attorney Casey White confirmed to Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 that his client, Tyrone Good, was the inmate killed.Good was being held at the jail on a homicide charge in the killing of his girlfriend, Michelle Sturdivant, 44, who was found dead at a North Side home in December.This is a developing story. Stay with Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 for updates. Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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The death of an inmate who was assaulted at the Allegheny County Jail is under investigation by police and jail officials.<\/p>\n
County police said the 44-year-old inmate was assaulted by “multiple incarcerated people” who entered his jail cell just before 12:50 p.m. Wednesday. The inmate was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
“Everyone involved in this incident is accounted for and the investigation is ongoing at this time,” county police said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Defense attorney Casey White confirmed to Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 that his client, Tyrone Good, was the inmate killed.<\/p>\n
Good was being held at the jail on a homicide charge in the killing of his girlfriend, Michelle Sturdivant, 44, who was found dead at a North Side home<\/a> in December.<\/p>\n This is a developing story. Stay with Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 for updates. <\/p>\n Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The death of an inmate who was assaulted at the Allegheny County Jail is under investigation by police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[900,14442,9647,60653,13313,11228,111,85258,2582,60726,85382,85383,528,73,75,74,85381,6989],"class_list":["post-191717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-action-news","tag-active-investigation","tag-allegheny-county-jail","tag-allegheny-county-jail-inmate","tag-allegheny-county-police","tag-assault","tag-death","tag-housing-unit","tag-incident","tag-investigation-underway","tag-investigation-wednesday-afternoon","tag-jail-oversight-board","tag-name","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-spokesman","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}