A former detention officer has been indicted in connection with the death of Jaquaree Simmons at the Harris County Jail, just short of two years since the 23-year-old was found unconscious in his cell.
. The indictment alleges the jailer kneed Simmons in the head, struck his head against a door and dropped him on his head, according to court records.
He was arrested Monday afternoon but court records did not immediately indicate when Morales would be expected in court. “It just gets worse and worse as it gets closer to the two years because I’m like, what, we are going to go two years and not know nothing?” Biggles said in the September interview. “We want to know. That’s all I’m asking – I want to know and I want somebody to be held accountable for what they did to my child.”
Detention officers responded to clean it and got into a physical confrontation with Simmons, officials said. They then left him in the cell during the February 2021 winter storm without clothing – a violation of jail policy.
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