{"id":196258,"date":"2026-03-09T02:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T02:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/196258\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T02:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T02:44:11","slug":"woman-in-custody-dies-after-being-taken-from-el-paso-county-jail-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/196258\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman in custody dies after being taken from El Paso County Jail to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) -A 35-year-old woman in custody at the El Paso County Jail died Friday after being taken to a local hospital, according to the El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The sheriff\u2019s office said the woman was receiving medical treatment at the jail around 1 p.m. when staff determined she needed additional care. Paramedics with AMR arrived shortly after and transported her to a hospital while a sheriff\u2019s deputy provided security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials said the woman was admitted to the hospital, but her condition worsened later in the evening. She died around 11:34 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The cause of death has not yet been determined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sheriff Joe Roybal has ordered an investigation into the incident. The El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office Investigations Division is handling the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">An autopsy has also been requested from the El Paso County Coroner\u2019s Office. The coroner will release the woman\u2019s identity and determine the official cause and manner of death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KKTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) -A 35-year-old woman in custody at the El Paso County Jail died Friday after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[77650,31526,631,138,1060,140,139,1524,34492,98],"class_list":["post-196258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-35-year-old","tag-dead","tag-death","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-county","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-jail","tag-sick","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}