Jail death in Multnomah County is 5th this year

Officials are investigating after an adult died in custody at Multnomah County’s Inverness Jail early Wednesday morning.

The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that deputies found the person unresponsive in a dorm room around 2:40 a.m., and emergency responders rushed them to a hospital where they later died.

Officials haven’t publicly identified the person who died, and said that their cause of death will be released after a county medical examiner completes an assessment…

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