Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Gerard Barnes

21 years old · died November 22, 2021 · Alamance County Detention Center, Alamance County, North Carolina

Gerard Barnes, 21, died on November 22, 2021, after he was found unresponsive at the Alamance County jail in North Carolina. The jail's press release said staff could not revive him, and that a medical examiner had not yet announced a cause of death. It also said another man held there had been found unresponsive and treated for an apparent overdose about an hour earlier, and that it was not yet known whether Barnes had overdosed.

Cause of death, as reported: Cause not yet determined

Reported by: Alamance County jail press release (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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