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Inmate died hours after being booked into Bernalillo County jail
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A male inmate died a day after being booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center over the weekend, officials said Tuesday.
“Despite rigorous life-saving efforts, an inmate died Sunday at the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center,” MDC spokeswoman Candace Hopkins said in a news release.
MDC will not release the 62-year-old man’s name until his family has been notified, she said.
The man was booked into the jail around 7 a.m. Saturday. The next day, around 9 p.m., the man “experienced a medical emergency, prompting a code to be called,” Hopkins said.
MDC staff and University of New Mexico Hospital staff stabilized the man before taking him to a medical unit in the detention center.
Roughly 22 minutes later, the man had another medical emergency. An ambulance arrived around 10:08 p.m. to assist in life-saving measures, Hopkins said. At 10:26 p.m., UNMH staff pronounced the man dead.
The man is the sixth MDC inmate to die at the facility or die after falling ill at the facility this year.
