The Tarrant County Sheriff's Office says an inmate has passed away.
Monday, the 51-year-old told staffers he wasn't feeling well. The medical staff checked him out and put him in an ambulance, but by the time it got to JPS Hospital he wasn't responding. They were able to resuscitate him, but he later passed away.
The Tarrant County Medical Examiner will determine how the man died.
All in-custody deaths are investigated and reviewed by Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office jail staff, the TCSO Criminal Investigations Division, the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office, an outside law enforcement agency, JPS medical staff, the Texas Attorney General’s Office and the Texas Commission on Jail Standards.
No word has been released yet on the man's identity, but the Sheriff's office says Fort Worth police arrested him in September on multiple felony counts of Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Child Under the Age of 14 and two counts of Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child.
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