A jury in Dinwiddie, Va., on Thursday quickly acquitted a former state psychiatric hospital worker of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Irvo Otieno, who took his last breath under a scrum of ...
correctionA previous version of this article incorrectly stated that Irvo Otieno’s mother was not told in advance that charges would be reduced against some of the defendants accused in her son’s ...
The Virginia prosecutor handling what was once a sprawling case in the 2023 death of Irvo Otieno in law enforcement custody said Monday that she had dropped all criminal charges against the two ...
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) – The in-custody death of Irvo Otieno could have been prevented if not for “the complete breakdown of Virginia’s mental health crisis system and the Commonwealth’s culture of ...
Virginia authorities moved quickly to investigate after Irvo Otieno, a 28-year-old Black man, was suffocated on the floor of a state psychiatric hospital in March 2023. By the following week, seven ...
correctionA previous version of this article incorrectly attributed a statement to Ben Crump. The statement was made by Mark Krudys. The article has been corrected. Irvo Otieno stopped breathing last ...
HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) – Irvo Otieno was pushed to the floor of a Henrico County jail cell, pinned down by sheriff’s deputies and hit multiple times hours before he died in custody at a state-run ...