An inmate died three days after being booked at the Tarrant County jail, officials said.
36-year-old John Barr was found unresponsive in his jail cell on Sunday, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner and sheriff’s office.
Barr received medical assistance at the jail and then taken to John Peter Smith Hospital where he later died.
Barr was booked into the jail on April 16 after he was arrested by the Texas Department of Public Safety on a parole violation, the sheriff’s office said.
As of Wednesday afternoon, a cause of death has not been been publicly shared by the medical examiner’s office.
All in-custody deaths are investigated and reviewed by Tarrant County sheriff’s office jail staff, the TCSO criminal investigations division, the county medical examiner’s office, an outside law enforcement agency, John Peter Smith Hospital medical staff, the Texas Attorney General’s Office and the Texas Commission on Jail Standards.
In December, another inmate died while in custody at the jail. Shuntae Lavette Broadus, 40, was found unresponsive in her cell on Dec. 21 and later died in a hospital.
Broadus was arrested by Arlington police on robbery charges and taken to the Tarrant County jail, where she had been since Aug. 3, 2025.