Dallas family blames sheriff’s office for overdose death of 21-year-old jail inmate

Quinnetta Brinkley’s family knew she was coming home from the Dallas County Jail in July. No one thought they would reunite at a funeral home after investigators alleged she was murdered after another woman smuggled fentanyl into the jail.

Opal Brinkley, her 74-year-old grandmother, said the family was grieving without any answers from authorities.

Opal Brinkley said she started raising Quinnetta Ariana Brinkley, known as Ari, when the girl was two years old. She also took in Ari’s siblings due to parenting issues and raised them in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas…

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