{"id":444894,"date":"2026-09-23T07:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T07:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/444894\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T07:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T07:12:14","slug":"fort-worth-man-dies-in-custody-investigation-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/444894\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth man dies in custody, investigation underway."},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Tarrant County Jail on Tuesday, October 11, 2022.<\/p>\n

Amanda McCoy<\/p>\n

amccoy@star-telegram.com<\/p>\n

A 37-year-old Tarrant County Jail inmate died on Tuesday after one day of imprisonment, county record shows.<\/p>\n

The man, identified as Jose Orozco died on Tuesday at 12:11 p.m. in the JPS Hospital emergency room, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner\u2019s<\/a> website. The medical examiner will determine Orozco\u2019s cause of death.<\/p>\n

Orozco arrived at the Tarrant County Jail on Monday, Sept. 21 and had been arrested by the Fort Worth Police Department on a burglary of building charge, according to court records.<\/p>\n

The Tarrant County Sheriff\u2019s Office has not shared further details about the death.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n

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Shambhavi Rimal<\/a><\/p>\n

Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n

Shambhavi covers crime, law enforcement and other breaking news in Fort Worth and Tarrant County. She graduated from the University of North Texas and previously covered a variety of general assignment topics in West Texas. She grew up in Nepal.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tarrant County Jail on Tuesday, October 11, 2022. Amanda McCoy amccoy@star-telegram.com A 37-year-old Tarrant County Jail inmate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-444894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444894","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=444894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}