William Pierce Howell, 89, was an inmate at the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center in New Mexico. He was booked into the facility on December 28, 2023. Howell was later hospitalized with pneumonia and died at UNM Hospital.
Hospital staff pronounced him dead on Sunday at about 12:30 p.m. The MDC Office of Professional Standards is investigating the case. The New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator will determine the official cause of death…