The death of a mentally ill Black man who was smothered while being admitted to a state-run psychiatric hospital in Virginia last month was labeled “medieval” by prosecutors in a new filing in the case on Wednesday.
and three hospital staffers were charged with second-degree murder after they dogpiled on Irvo Otieno when he was moved from the Henrico County Jail to a medical center for treatment. The 28-year-old, who was handcuffed and shackled, eventually stopped moving, and later stopped breathing.In the new motion, Dinwiddie Commonwealth’s Attorney Ann Cabell Baskervill said Otieno’s death was comparable to an ancient form of execution known as pressing.
The filing also revealed for the first time that investigators with Virginia State Police had found that Otieno’s handcuffs and leg-irons had been “cleaned and placed back in Henrico transport vehicles” prior to their arrival on the scene. It was unclear if prosecutors believe this was a deliberate attempt to tamper with evidence.“It is not irrelevant that if one person here had acted differently, then Otieno may very well have been able to survive,” she wrote.
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