Derrell Moultrie
Derrell Moultrie, 30, died on July 15, 2023, at the Mobile County Metro Jail in Mobile, Alabama, where he was held. Corrections officers found him unresponsive in his cell. The Mobile County Sheriff's Office said detectives saw no signs of foul play or trauma, and the sheriff said the investigation pointed to some kind of illicit drug. The cause of death was still pending autopsy and toxicology results, and the sheriff's office said it was the jail's second death in less than a month.
Cause of death, as reported: Cause not yet determined. The Mobile County Sheriff's Office said no signs of foul play or trauma were seen and that toxicology and autopsy results are pending; the sheriff said an illicit drug may be involved.
Reported by: Mobile County Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him); Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch (the agency that held him); Mobile County Major Crimes Detectives Unit (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.
News reports (5)
- 2nd Mobile Metro Jail prisoner death in less than a month
- Third inmate dies in Mobile Metro Jail in a month
- Three inmate deaths at Metro Jail in one month; why so many?
- Sheriff says Metro Jail workers could not stop latest inmate deaths
- Records show 30 died in Mobile, Baldwin county jails in 13 years