The family of a man who died from severe head injuries shortly after his booking into the Vista Detention Facility filed a lawsuit this week against San Diego County, the city of Escondido, and members of the jail’s medical staff.
Jose Ramon Cervantes Conejo, 43, was hospitalized shortly after his March 28, 2024, arrest and remained in the hospital in a coma for about two weeks before dying.
The lawsuit filed Monday on behalf of his family states that a jail deputy told hospital staff that Conejo “rolled off the bench in his cell,” but the lawsuit alleges that per a doctor who examined him, the severity of his head injuries — including a skull fracture — were “not compatible with a simple fall and seemed more traumatic.”…