Died in jail or a lockup
Darrell Tyrone Young
Darrell Tyrone Young died in 2025 while held in the custody of the Shelby County Sheriff's Office in Memphis, Tennessee. The sheriff's office said an autopsy report attributed his death to complications of small bowel necrosis, which it linked to hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Reports published in December 2025 give no further account of how his death came about.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Shelby County Sheriff's Office, citing an autopsy report, says he died of complications of small bowel necrosis due to hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
Reported by: Shelby County Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him); autopsy report.