James McBrayer
James McBrayer, 41, was a truck driver who had three children and had recently become a grandfather. In April 2019, Tift County deputies restrained him and placed him across the rear seat of a patrol car with his wrists and ankles bound. Paramedics found him unresponsive when they removed him from the car. A lawsuit against the sheriff's office was settled for $500,000, and the county denied wrongdoing.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by staff (disputed). Tift County deputies restrained McBrayer and laid him across a patrol car's rear seat with his wrists and ankles bound, and his family's lawsuit links that restraint to his death; the county denied wrongdoing.
Reported by: Tift County Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him); his family's lawsuit (family or their lawyers).
Lawsuit: His family sued the Tift County Sheriff's Office and settled for $500,000, with the county denying wrongdoing.