A 56-year-old male inmate at the Weld County jail was found unresponsive Sunday afternoon and efforts to revive him were unsuccessful, the 19th Judicial Critical Incident Response Team said in a release Sunday.
Weld County Sheriff’s Office deputies found the inmate at 3:09 p.m. Sunday and attempted to administer CPR, calling in medical staff and paramedics. The inmate was pronounced dead and the Critical Incident Response Team was brought in to investigate.
The Weld County coroner plans release the identity of the deceased inmate once relatives are notified. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact Detective Brain Hunziker with the Greeley Police Department at Brian.Hunziker@greeleypd.com.
Weld County jail inmate Keith Schmedtje, 50, died while in custody on May 16 of this year. And another inmate died last November after experiencing a medical emergency.
Inmate Amy Lynn Cross, 41, died in September 2021 after complaining for seven hours that she was having difficulty breathing and not receiving medical treatment, according to a lawsuit filed by her family against the jail’s medical provider and Weld County.
Undetected bags of methamphetamine broke open two days after she was booked into the Greeley jail, according to the complaint.
