Sheriff ID's Larimer County Jail inmate who died in custody
Quoted from Coloradoan: Sheriff ID's Larimer County Jail inmate who died in custody
Author: Robert Allen, RobertAllen@coloradoan.com
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The Larimer County Jail inmate who died in custody Wednesday has been identified as Brian Dean Porter, 31, an unemployed Fort Collins plumber.
Porter, who was recently allowed to work in the kitchen because of good behavior, had been working to prepare breakfast before leaving for the restroom at about 5:45 a.m. He was found after falling on the floor outside the restroom 23 minutes later, bleeding from the head, Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith said at a Thursday-morning press conference.
An autopsy is scheduled for today, and the cause of death is pending. Porter, who was arrested Feb. 15, had received a physical about two weeks after he was admitted and another check-up before he started working in the kitchen last month, Smith said.
Porter had been arrested on charges of failure to comply involving a previous case of felony menacing and two drunken driving charges dating back to 2009. He is not believed to have had any communicable diseases, and the jail has not been put on lockdown, Smith said.
Porter was pronounced dead at 12:57 p.m. Wednesday after he was taken to Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins. Smith said that people who responded to Porter when he was found on the floor at 6:08 a.m. could not find a pulse on him.
Porter's death marks the third this year at the jail, which has had six deaths since it opened in the 1980s, Smith said.
Tiffany Ann Nobi, 25, and Charles Edward Betts, 53, were both transients in unrelated cases who died in January. Betts died of cardiac arrest, according to Larimer County Coroner's Office.
Nobi died from lack of oxygen to the brain, and the death was found to be "natural" in manner, according to Larimer County Coroner's office.
The jail on Thursday had about 468 inmates, and the maximum capacity is 557.
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Death in County Jail
Points: -7
What natural modes for lack of oxygen to the brain?
Points: -4
“Nobi died from lack of oxygen to the brain, and the death was found to be "natural" in manner, according to Larimer County Coroner's office.”
What in the hell is that supposed to mean? How did her brain get lack of oxygen? Does this happen often for 25 year olds? Or does her being “transient” (anybody know where was she transiting to/from, BTW) have anything to do with the autopsy results? It seems like the Larimer County Corner doesn't much give a shit.
Maybe a medical practitioner can tell us how one can die from lack of oxygen to the brain in a natural manner while in the county jail. A registered nurse maybe? Anybody?
Lack of oxygen to the brain is not a normal operational state of the human body, so saying it was “natural” just doesn't pan out…
CatWhisperer
Fort Collins, CO, USA
So is it brain swelling or lack of oxygen to the brain?
Points: -3
So in the same article I cite as explaining some of Brian Porter's last moments, farther on, I find this quote from Sheriff Smith in the Loveland Reporter Herald article Larimer sheriff to review procedures after another inmate dies, Smith is quoted as saying:
So which is it, lack of oxygen or brain swelling? Does one lead to the other?
CatWhisperer
Fort Collins, CO, USA
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