Fabian Tinsley
Fabian Tinsley, 67, was held at the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina, and was taken to a local hospital in early April 2020 after going into respiratory failure. The Federal Bureau of Prisons said he had COVID-19 and respiratory failure, and he died on a ventilator there on April 16, 2020. His niece Regina February described him as a family person who was like a father to her, and the family has a cemetery plot ready for him in the District. The family says no one from federal authorities notified them, and they learned of his death online months later. At the time of the report, they did not know where his body was, and the Bureau of Prisons could not say what happened to it.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Federal Bureau of Prisons said he died of COVID-19 and respiratory failure at a local hospital after going into respiratory failure at FCI Butner I.
Reported by: Federal Bureau of Prisons (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.