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Leatte Hurd leans on her husband, Joseph Hurd, at a June 19, 2026 news conference the day after their son, Mack Greer, was pronounced brain-dead. Greer was the third Tarrant County Jail inmate to die in four days.<\/p>\n
Rachel Royster<\/p>\n
rroyster@star-telegram.com<\/p>\n
The Tarrant County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office has found that a man who died at the county hospital shortly after being released from jail died from complications of a rare brain disease.<\/p>\n
The day after Mack Greer, 46, died at John Peter Smith Hospital, his family and Democrat Commissioner Alisa Simmons spoke at a press conference outside the building. They called for an outside investigation to take place.<\/p>\n
Simmons said when she saw him prior to his death, his head was \u201cmisshapen\u201d and had bruises in multiple places. Greer\u2019s family said officers tried to convince them he killed himself or had a brain bleed, but they didn\u2019t believe it<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t have an MD, but I\u2019ve worked with MHMR, and nobody that hits their head hits it in multiple places,\u201d Leatta Hurd, Greer\u2019s mother, said. \u201cThey might hit it in one place, but they don\u2019t have it multiple places. So, none of the things they\u2019re trying to tell me to shut me up is adding up.\u201d<\/p>\n The medical examiner\u2019s report says Greer\u2019s manner of death was natural but was caused by moyamoya disease. The rare condition causes the carotid artery inside the skull to narrow or close<\/a>, depriving the brain of oxygen.<\/p>\n Greer was one of four people<\/a> in the jail or recently released from the Tarrant County Jail who died in an eleven-day span.<\/p>\n
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