Roger Tolefree
Roger Tolefree, a 71-year-old Black man, died on October 14, 2020, while held at East Moline Correctional Center in Illinois, which is run by the Illinois Department of Corrections. The department's records list the manner of death as natural and the cause as acute severe hypoxic respiratory failure and severe bilateral pneumonia secondary to COVID-19. A Quad-City Times report from November 2020 said he was one of four men who died of the virus at the prison that month, and the state corrections department confirmed those deaths.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Illinois Department of Corrections reported the death as natural, from COVID-19 pneumonia and respiratory failure.
Reported by: Illinois Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.