HARRIS COUNTY, Texas – Investigations are underway to determine what caused a man’s death while he was in custody at the Harris County Jail.<\/p>\n
Harris County inmate death investigations <\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
Harris County officials say 49-year-old Karlos Butler<\/a> was pronounced deceased on Wednesday, Aug. 5, shortly after 4 p.m.<\/p>\n He was reportedly taken into custody Tuesday afternoon for allegedly possessing less than one gram of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n According to officials, Butler collapsed in the Harris County Joint Processing Center at around 3 p.m. on Wednesday. He received immediate medical attention and was taken to St. Joseph Hospital via ambulance before he was pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n Butler’s cause of death will be determined by an autopsy from the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences.<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n Houston Police will be investigating the inmate’s death.<\/p>\n The County Sheriff’s Office’s Internal Affairs Division will investigate whether law enforcement followed the correct policies and procedures.<\/p>\n The Source: Harris County Sheriff’s Office<\/p>\n Harris County Sheriff’s Office<\/a>Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRIS COUNTY, Texas – Investigations are underway to determine what caused a man’s death while he was in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[10181,56,58,57,223,1827,2785,2053],"class_list":["post-402142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-hcso","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-organization","tag-texas-dps","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402142","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=402142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}