Jerome Beverly Tucker
Jerome Beverly Tucker, 65, of Pottstown, had been held at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in Pennsylvania since 2018. He was released on unsecured bail on August 18, 2020, because of his medical condition, and was taken directly to a hospital, where he died that day. Montgomery County commissioners said he died of COVID-19 and had three underlying medical conditions. The commissioners said he was the first COVID-19 death at the jail since the pandemic began and that it is not known how he was exposed.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. Montgomery County commissioners said he died of COVID-19, the first such death at the jail since the pandemic began, and that it is not known how he was exposed.
Reported by: Montgomery County commissioners (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.