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Dexter Barry
Gender : Male
Age : 54
Race : Black
Date : 11/18/2022
Location : Unknown
City : Jacksonville
County : Duval
State : Florida
Agency : Jacksonville SO
Officer(s) :Unknown
Cause of Death : Medical emergency
Event : Died in custody when police withheld medications
OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :
Dexter Barry had a heart transplant and was on anti-rejection medicines. Jacksonville deputies arrested him and held him without charges and he urged them to give him his anti-rejection medicine without which he would die. Police withheld his medicine deliberately and he died from heart rejection/necrosis due to lack of his medicines per autopsy.
SOURCE LINKS :
https://www.wsaz.com/2023/05/28/man-dies-after-not-receiving-doses-essential-medication-jail/