Three Harris County jailers indicted for assaulting, beating inmate into a coma

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The family says that on the day after Thanksgiving, Garcia was beaten severely by guards. He suffered a brain injury causing him to go into a coma and lose part of his skull.

Three Harris County jailers were charged with Assault with Bodily Injury after the family of 48-year-old Adael Gonzalez Garcia filed a federal lawsuit against Harris County Jail. FOX 26 Houston is now on the FOX LOCAL app available through Apple TV, Amazon FireTV, Roku, Google Android TV, and Vizio!Garcia was booked into the Harris County Jail the day before Thanksgiving 2022 and arrested for an outstanding misdemeanor warrant. EXCLUSIVE: Two former Harris Co.

"There has been no previous case I am aware of where three or more jailers have been indicted in a single case," said former Harris County Sheriff's Office Sergeant Jeff Reese."Harris County does not indemnify the jail guards for civil rights violations so many injured inmates go into severe debt and never recover financially while families of those who died do not even receive funeral costs," said civil rights lawyer Randall L.

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