Lawyers for Irvo Otieno’s family likened his death to that of George Floyd.
’s family members recounted harrowing details of escalating mistreatment that ended in the 28-year-old Black man’s death, Virginia prosecutors announced they would be charging three additional people—state hospital employees—with his murder on Thursday.
The three mental hospital employees charged Thursday with second-degree murder are: Darian M. Blackwell, 23, of Petersburg; Wavie L. Jones, 34, of Chesterfield; and Sadarius D. Williams, 27, of North Dinwiddie. But while the family called for the videos to be released in the name of transparency, Baskervill released a statement on Thursday saying she would not be doing so “at this point” in order “to maintain the integrity of the criminal justice process.”
Otieno, a former football player and avid hip-hop performer, began to experience symptoms of mental illness his senior year of high school, his mother said at Thursday’s press conference. “You keep searching in your heart for which one of them will have the humanity to say that 11 minutes is far too long,” Crump said on Thursday. Family attorney Mark Krudis also noted that state hospital employees in blue shirts joined in on restraining Otieno after initially standing to the side.According to ABC8 News, after the act, deputies washed and returned the handcuffs they used on Otieno to their car, and waited hours to report his death to the police.
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