Markeisha Monique Renee Blount
A 31-year-old woman died at the Maple Street Correctional Center in Redwood City, San Mateo County, on the morning of September 29, 2025. The San Mateo County Sheriff's Office said deputies were notified around 6 a.m. of a medical emergency in the general population pod where she was held, and that jail staff and paramedics tried to save her. Her name and cause of death were not released at first, and the sheriff's office later said she was found unresponsive and that investigators suspect fentanyl was provided to her by another person held at the jail, a claim that has been referred to the district attorney. The San Mateo County District Attorney, Coroner, and Sheriff's Investigations Bureau are each reviewing how she died.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of an overdose. The San Mateo County Sheriff's Office says investigators suspect a fentanyl overdose that another person held at the jail supplied, and the case was referred to the district attorney while the coroner's cause-of-death ruling is pending.
Reported by: San Mateo County Sheriff's Office (the agency that held her). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held her.