Sterling Higgins
Sterling Higgins, 37, died on March 25, 2019, while held at the Obion County Law Enforcement Complex in Obion County, Tennessee. Local reporting said he had called 911 in distress outside a convenience store before being taken into the complex, and that jailers and officers restrained him at intake. Staff were said to have checked his pulse repeatedly before EMS arrived, and he was pronounced dead at a hospital in Union City. The West Tennessee Regional Forensic Center autopsy attributed his death to excited delirium from a methamphetamine overdose and listed the manner as an accident. A grand jury declined to indict anyone in connection with his death.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of an overdose (disputed). The West Tennessee Regional Forensic Center autopsy attributes the death to excited delirium from methamphetamine overdose, while a news report lists restraint as the cause.
Reported by: West Tennessee Regional Forensic Center autopsy report (medical examiner or coroner); news report.