{"id":101504,"date":"2025-12-26T18:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T18:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/101504\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T18:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T18:01:08","slug":"tarrant-county-inmate-who-died-after-being-found-unresponsive-idd-as-40-year-old-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/101504\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarrant County inmate who died after being found unresponsive ID\u2019d as 40-year-old woman"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 40-year-old Tarrant County<\/a> jail inmate who died Sunday<\/a> after being found unresponsive in her cell has been identified.<\/p>\n

Officials said Shuntae Lavette Broadus received lifesaving care from the medical staff at John Peter Smith Correctional Health after she was found unresponsive on Dec. 21, according to a previous statement from the Tarrant County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

She was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital for additional care, the statement said.<\/p>\n

Broadus died in the hospital\u2019s intensive care unit around 4:11 p.m., according to the Tarrant County medical examiner. Her cause and manner of death are still pending.<\/p>\n

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Broadus initially was arrested by Arlington police on robbery charges and taken to the Tarrant County jail, where she had been since Aug. 3, 2025.<\/p>\n

Broadus\u2019 death marks the latest in a string of in-custody deaths at the Tarrant County jail. The two most recent were those of a 57-year-old woman in April<\/a> and a 61-year-old man in August<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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