Jason King
Jason King died on April 25, 2023, while held at the Stiles Unit, a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison in Jefferson County, according to the Texas Office of the Attorney General's custodial death report. A later news report, quoting a Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesperson, said he got into an altercation with another person held in the state prison system in April 2023 and was taken to a hospital in Galveston, where he died. The news report did not name the facility that held him.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody. Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesperson Amanda Hernandez said King got into an altercation with another person held in the state prison system and died at a Galveston hospital.
Reported by: Texas Department of Criminal Justice, through spokesperson Amanda Hernandez (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.