Ty’rique Riley was arrested during what appeared to be a mental health crisis the morning of June 18, 2019, according to a lawsuit filed by his family.
Less than a week later, he left Dauphin County Prison in cardiac arrest covered in bruises and other signs of physical trauma. He died July 1 from “natural causes,” according to the coroner, involving rare disease that provoked inflammation in his brain.
But his family never believed that. After several years of litigation disputing the official narrative on what killed the 21-year-old, which included an independent pathologist’s opinion that Riley was beaten to death, his family has agreed to settle a civil rights lawsuit against the county and its officials…