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Michael Williams

59 years old · died January 5, 2021 · Oklahoma County Detention Center, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

Michael Williams, 59, died at the Oklahoma County Detention Center in Oklahoma City on January 5, 2021. The jail said in a news release that he was found unresponsive in his cell shortly before 7:30 p.m. and was pronounced dead at the scene by EMSA, and that he did not have a cellmate. The jail said it is investigating the death, and the manner and cause of death remain pending. A February 2021 report named him among six people who had died at the Oklahoma County Jail since mid-December 2020, but gave no further details about his death.

Cause of death, as reported: Cause not yet determined

Reported by: Oklahoma County Detention Center (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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