{"id":439378,"date":"2026-09-18T00:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T00:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/439378\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T00:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T00:28:09","slug":"man-dies-in-custody-at-travis-county-jail-one-day-after-booking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/439378\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies in custody at Travis County Jail one day after booking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas \u2014 A 43-year-old man died Wednesday after he was found unresponsive in his cell at the Travis County Jail, according to the Travis County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Ramon of Austin was found unresponsive around 9:05 a.m. during a nurse&#8217;s rounds, TCSO said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/This vest simulates getting shot in the line of duty so officers can train for it before\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO| This vest simulates getting shot in the line of duty so officers can train for it before<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The nurse immediately began CPR, with corrections staff assisting until Austin-Travis County EMS and firefighters arrived and continued lifesaving efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Ramon was pronounced dead at 9:51 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>According to TCSO, Ramon had been booked into the jail Tuesday, one day before his death, on a parole violation.<\/p>\n<p>TCSO&#8217;s Internal Affairs Unit and Criminal Investigations Division are investigating the death along with the Texas Rangers and Travis County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office. The sheriff&#8217;s office said those investigations are standard procedure following a death in custody.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy was conducted Thursday. The final autopsy report, including Ramon&#8217;s cause and manner of death, is pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas \u2014 A 43-year-old man died Wednesday after he was found unresponsive in his cell at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-439378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439378","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=439378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}