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Jeffery Paul Kay, Jr.

33 years old · died September 13, 2019 · Payne County Jail, Payne County, Oklahoma

Jeffery Paul Kay Jr., 33, died on September 13, 2019, while held at the Payne County Jail in Oklahoma. According to a jail incident report cited by The Frontier, he tried to swallow a substance during a strip search, and a detention officer recovered part of it. The report said medical staff monitored him afterward, and first responders declared him dead about 25 minutes later. The report lists methamphetamine intoxication as the cause of death.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of an overdose. The jail incident report lists the cause as methamphetamine intoxication after he tried to swallow a substance during a strip search.

Reported by: Payne County jail incident report (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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