- Sunday March 20th, 2016 :: 02:18 p.m. PDT
#LASD Homicide Death Investigation, N. County Correctional Facility, 29340 The Old Rd, Castaic
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Bureau detectives responded to North County Correctional Facility, 29340 The Old Road, Castaic, to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of a man.
Detectives have learned that at 7:05 this morning, Sunday, March 20, 2016, deputies were alerted by inmates that another inmate in their dorm was having a seizure. Facility medical personnel were summoned to the inmate’s housing location by the deputies. While the inmate was being transported to the facility infirmary he became unresponsive and the Los Angeles County Fire Department paramedics were called. Paramedics were unable to revive him and they pronounced him dead at the scene.
The cause of death will be determined at the completion of an autopsy that will be conducted by Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner personnel.
The identity of the inmate is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.
There is no further information available at this time.
Anyone with information about this incident is encouraged to contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Homicide Bureau at (323) 890-5500. If you prefer to provide information anonymously, you may call "Crime Stoppers" by dialing (800) 222-TIPS (8477), or texting the letters TIPLA plus your tip to CRIMES (274637), or by using the website http://lacrimestoppers.org.
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