Irvo Otieno's mother said he’d found his passion making hip-hop. Now she says, “All I’m left with is his voice.” Seven deputies and three hospital employees have been charged with second-degree murder in Otieno's death at a Virginia state mental hospital.
“He had found his thing — you know that feeling when you find your thing?” his mother Caroline Ouko told reporters Thursday.
“He would go in his room and shut the door. And he had it — he was brilliant and creative and bright.”Ouko remembered her son’s life at an hourlong news conference that focused primarily on
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Mother: Irvo Otieno was 'brilliant and creative and bright'The mother of a Black man who died in police custody at a Virginia mental hospital says her son was “brilliant, creative and bright.”
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3 Virginia hospital workers charged with murder in death of Irvo Otieno | CNNThree hospital employees in Virginia were arrested Thursday and charged with second-degree murder in the death of Irvo Otieno, the 28-year-old Black man who died at a state mental health facility last week, the Office of the Commonwealth's Attorney for Dinwiddie County said in a news release obtained by CNN affiliate WTVR.
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Irvo Otieno death: Family views video as three hospital employees are charged with murderThe mother of Irvo Otieno, a man who died while in custody at a state psychiatric hospital, spoke about her son's 'inhumane death' at a news conference on Thursday after viewing surveillance video of the incident.
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10 charged in Irvo Otieno’s death at mental hospitalDINWIDDIE, Va. (AP) — Video from a state mental hospital shows a Black Virginia man who was handcuffed and shackled being pinned to the ground by deputies who are now facing second-degree murder charges in his death, according to relatives of the man and their attorneys who viewed the footage Thursday.
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10 charged in Irvo Otieno’s death at mental hospitalAttorneys for the family of a Black Virginia man who died in law enforcement custody say video of the incident shows seven sheriff’s deputies pushing down “every part of his body” with “absolute brutality.”
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3 Virginia hospital workers charged in death of Irvo Otieno at mental health facilityCivil rights attorney Ben Crump, who's joined the Otieno family's legal team, called the case 'shocking.'
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