A 23-year-old man went into medical misery and died shortly after San Diego law enforcement officials put him into handcuffs Sunday evening, a sheriff’s official stated.
Authorities recognized the person as Denny Jalate, and stated he died after he was taken to a hospital.
Simply after 10 p.m. Sunday, police had been despatched to a house on thirty ninth Road south of Thorn Road in Metropolis Heights, after somebody known as to report a household disturbance, stated Lt. Chris Steffen, who’s with the Sheriff’s Division’s Murder Unit, which investigates in-custody deaths.
San Diego law enforcement officials arrived to seek out Jalate’s members of the family restraining him on the bottom, Steffen stated. How they had been restraining him remains to be beneath investigation, he stated.
Police put handcuffs on Jalate “with out incident,” the lieutenant stated. Then officers seen he was in some type of “medical misery.”
The officers began life-saving measures and known as for paramedics, who took Jalate to a hospital. His situation declined and he died earlier than midnight, Steffen stated.
He stated an post-mortem is predicted however has not but been scheduled.
Jalate’s encounter with officers was recorded by the officers’ body-worn cameras.
The San Diego Police Division and county Sheriff’s Division examine in-custody deaths throughout businesses in accordance with an inter-department settlement and in line with state regulation that bars an company from investigating itself when somebody dies in custody.
