Deaths in Custody
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Adam Terrance Rogers

31 years old · died October 7, 2020 · Vista Detention Facility, San Diego County, California

Adam Terrance Rogers, 31, died in his cell at the Vista Detention Facility in Vista, San Diego County, California, on or about October 7, 2020, more than two months after being booked there. His brother, Nicholas Rogers, said Adam had struggled with addiction for years, beginning around the time of his divorce. The San Diego County Sheriff's Department said an autopsy by the Medical Examiner's Office found acute fentanyl, alcohol and citalopram intoxication and classed the death as an accident. The department did not say how he obtained the drugs and alcohol, and his family said investigators found a white substance and black residue in his cell.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of an overdose. The sheriff's department said the county medical examiner's autopsy found acute fentanyl, alcohol and citalopram intoxication and classed the death as an accident.

Reported by: San Diego County Sheriff's Department (the agency that held him); San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office (medical examiner or coroner).

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