Courtesy Benjamin Crump
As Irvo Otieno’s family members recounted harrowing details of escalating mistreatment that ended in the 28-year-old Black man’s death, Virginia prosecutors announced they would be charging three additional people—state hospital employees—with his murder on Thursday.
The new details surrounding his death come two days after seven Henrico County sheriff’s deputies were also charged with the murder of Otieno as he was in the throes of a mental health crisis.
At a press conference Thursday afternoon, family and lawyers described videos that they allege show Otieno locked up naked in a Henrico County cell surrounded by his own feces. The footage allegedly also shows Otieno on March 6, when he was held face-down by seven deputies for 11 minutes, cuffed, shackled, and with a knee on his neck at Central State Hospital.
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