{"id":285169,"date":"2026-05-09T00:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T00:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/285169\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T00:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T00:21:09","slug":"inmate-dies-after-medical-emergency-at-el-paso-county-jail-annex-investigation-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/285169\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmate dies after medical emergency at El Paso County Jail Annex, investigation underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 An inmate at the El Paso County Jail Annex has died after a medical emergency, according to the El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office reported that staff at the facility responded to a medical emergency involving an inmate on Friday morning and provided lifesaving measures before the inmate was taken to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>The identity and the cause of the medical emergency of the inmate are unclear. <\/p>\n<p>The death is under investigation by multiple agencies, including the Texas Rangers and the El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office Major Crime Unit and the Texas Commission on Jail Standards.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office said the Texas Commission on Jail Standards was notified in accordance with state law.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story, check back for updates. <\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/el-paso-county-sheriffs-office-launches-online-survey-on-dwi-enforcement-response-times-texas-tx-oscar-ugarte?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso County Sheriff&#8217;s Office launches online survey on DWI enforcement, response times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 An inmate at the El Paso County Jail Annex has died after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-285169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285169","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=285169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}