A 35-year-old man in custody at San Diego Central Jail was stricken by some apparent medical emergency on Wednesday and died hours later in a hospital, authorities reported.
Deputies and a nurse distributing medication at the Front Street detention center at about 4:30 a.m. found the inmate slumped over a table in his cell, seemingly in “medical distress,” according to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office.
Jailers performed CPR on the man before the arrival of paramedics, who took over the lifesaving efforts and transported him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead at about 8:30 a.m., sheriff’s Lt. Juan Marquez said…