Seven sheriff's deputies in Virginia have been charged with second-degree murder in the man's death.
RICHMOND, Va. — Seven Virginia sheriff’s deputies held down a mental patient on the floor for 12 minutes while he was shackled and handcuffed, eventually “smothering him to death,” Dinwiddie County’s chief prosecutor told a judge Wednesday.
About eight minutes into the incident, the deputies were joined by five Central State Hospital security officers. At the heart of his family’s allegations is that Otieno, who had a history of mental health problems, should have been treated as a patient with psychological problems, and not as a criminal.
She said the two injections did not enter his system because by the time they were administered, his heart had already stopped. Baskervill said she plans to seek indictments against the seven deputies when the grand jury meets Tuesday in Dinwiddie. “It’s pretty unusual to go about things the way it’s been done,” Bowen said. “Ann Cabell Baskervill is concerned about [what happened at Central State Hospital], and she has looked at videos that I haven’t seen, so I have to respect that.”
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