MILPITAS — Investigators are trying into the dying of an inmate at a county jail housing unit this week, authorities stated.
In keeping with an announcement Friday night by a Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Workplace spokesperson, San Jose police booked a 65-year-old man into the county’s Principal Jail on Tuesday after San Jose police arrested him on suspicion of a number of prices of aggravated sexual assault of a kid.
Shortly earlier than 2:05 p.m. Thursday, deputies finishing up welfare checks on the county’s Elmwood jail discovered the person unresponsive inside a cell the place he had been held alone.
Deputies and different first responders started offering emergency life-saving measures earlier than paramedics and Milpitas Hearth Division firefighters arrived at 2:15 p.m. and took the person to a hospital, the place he was pronounced lifeless at 2:52 p.m., the spokesman stated. His id was not disclosed, pending notification of next-of-kin.
Preliminary outcomes of an investigation by sheriff’s detectives discovered the dying appeared to have been by suicide. The sheriff’s workplace stated it'll comply with its in-custody dying protocol, opening a joint investigation with the county district lawyer and medical examiner-coroner’s workplaces.
Contact George Kelly at 408-859-5180.