Candice Crose
Candice Crose, 32, of Mansfield, died on April 14, 2024, at OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital after being held at the Richland County Jail. Jail staff responded to a medical emergency in her housing unit that morning and took her to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead shortly after arriving. Her mother, Sheila Lambert, said Crose had been due to be moved to a women's reformatory and then to a halfway house, and she started a GoFundMe for a memorial so family and her children could say goodbye. The Richland County Coroner's Office autopsy results list fentanyl intoxication as the cause of death, and the sheriff's office says an investigation is ongoing.
Cause of death, as reported: Cause not yet determined. The coroner's autopsy lists fentanyl intoxication as the cause of death, but the sheriff's office says the death is under investigation and the coroner's office has not yet given a manner of death.
Reported by: Richland County Coroner's Office (medical examiner or coroner); Richland County Sheriff J. Steve Sheldon (the agency that held her); Richland County Coroner's Investigator Bob Ball (medical examiner or coroner); Sheila Lambert, Candice Crose's mother (family or their lawyers).
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