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Jonathan Robert Whitlock

35 years old · died April 27, 2021 · George F. Bailey Detention Facility, San Diego County, California

Jonathan Robert Whitlock, 35, collapsed in his housing unit at the George F. Bailey Detention Facility in Otay Mesa, San Diego, on the afternoon of April 27, 2021. Paramedics took him to an outside hospital, where he died shortly after arrival. Lt. Thomas Seiver and San Diego County sheriff's officials said postmortem examinations found acute fentanyl intoxication, with obesity as a contributing factor, and ruled the death an accident.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of an overdose. San Diego County sheriff's officials said postmortem examinations found acute fentanyl intoxication, with obesity as a contributing factor, and ruled the death an accident.

Reported by: Lt. Thomas Seiver and San Diego County sheriff's officials (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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