A family is looking for answers after they claim their family member is the 80th person to have died in Tarrant County Jail since Sheriff Bill Waybourn was elected in 2017.
Tarrant County Commissioner Alisa Simmons held a press conference with the family of Victor Runnels on Tuesday evening at Tarrant County Sub-Courthouse in Arlington on Runnels’ death.
Runnels, 61, was arrested by the Fort Worth Police Department on a parole violation and booked into the Tarrant County Jail on June 11. On June 24, Runnels suffered a medical event and was taken to JPS Hospital, where Runnels died the next day…