Marquis Emmanuel Oliver
Marquis Emmanuel Oliver, 21, of Lansing, had been held at the Ingham County Jail since January 2019. The Ingham County Sheriff's Office said that on October 23, 2019, while he was being transferred from the courthouse in downtown Lansing to the jail in Mason, he opened a sliding side door of the moving van and jumped onto U.S. 127. He was gravely injured and died at a hospital. The sheriff said he did not appear to have been struck by a vehicle, and the Michigan State Police are investigating how he died.
Cause of death, as reported: Cause not yet determined. The Ingham County Sheriff's Office says he jumped from a moving prison transport van onto U.S. 127 and died of his injuries, and the Michigan State Police are investigating.
Reported by: Ingham County Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.