Death by Cop  2022-2024

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James Dalehart

Gender : Male

Age : 51

Race : White

Date : 07/24/2024

Location : 3600 block of Jasmine Street

City : East Del Paso Heights

County : Sacramento

State : California

Agency : Sacramento Police Department

Officer(s) :Not Disclosed

Cause of Death : Gunshot

Event : Died while handcuffed in police car from unknown causes

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

Sacramento PD were called to a welfare check on a 51-year-old man who was intoxicated. Police said he held a knife and threw it when police arrived, then locked himself into a vehicle. Police somehow extricated him from the vehicle, subjected him to a harsh physical arrest by multiple officers, placed him in handcuffs and in the back of a police car. He was found dead from unknown causes, sitting in the police car after the physical arrest. Police speculated that it may be drug-related. The temperatures in Sacramento on the afternoon of 7/24/2024 were above 90 degrees and the man had spent an unknown length of time first locked in his own vehicle, then the back of a patrol car. He was found prone slumped over in a police vehicle. It is unknown how long he had been prone.

SOURCE LINKS :

https://www.yahoo.com/news/sacramento-police-investigating-custody-death-145224752.html

Bodycam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVHyPCpEGgM&rco=1