Seven deputies pinned Irvo Otieno to the floor of a mental institution while he was shackled and handcuffed, prosecutors and the family's attorneys say.
Seven Henrico County deputies were arrested earlier this week and charged with second-degree murder in Otieno’s death. The deputies are Kaiyell Sanders, Randy Boyer, Tabitha Levere, Bradley Disse, Dwayne Bramble, Jermaine Branch and Brandon Rogers.
According to the family’s attorneys, Otieno was an aspiring musician and well-known high school athlete in Henrico County. Immigrating here from Kenya with his family as a child, Otieno was “deeply loved by his parents,” Crump said.“This was my baby. He cared for people. He cared that people were treated right. That was at the core of the upbringing in our home,” Otieno’s mother, Caroline Ouko, said at the Thursday press conference.
“Can you imagine how he is feeling? He was naked in his cell and not receiving his medications. They were potentially abusive to him. According to the prosecutor, they pepper-sprayed him,”On March 6, authorities transported Otieno from the jail to Central State Hospital, a state-run psychiatric institution.
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