Deaths in Custody
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Raynell Hawkins

31 years old · died January 20, 2022 · Correctional Treatment Facility, District of Columbia County, District of Columbia

Raynell Dayra Hawkins, a 31-year-old Black woman, died on January 20, 2022, at the Correctional Treatment Facility in Washington, D.C., while in the custody of the D.C. Department of Corrections. The D.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner listed the cause of death as combined adverse effects of buprenorphine, doxepin, olanzapine, sertraline, and trazodone and ruled the manner an accident. DCist reported the death in September 2022 with the same accidental finding.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of an overdose. The D.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled the death an accident caused by combined adverse effects of buprenorphine, doxepin, olanzapine, sertraline, and trazodone.

Reported by: D.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (medical examiner or coroner).

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