Name not reported
A 22-year-old man died on January 10, 2025, while boarding a jail transport bus outside a downtown Los Angeles County jail, bound for court, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department officials cited by the Los Angeles Times. Officials described the death as part of a cluster of suspected overdoses that also sent two other people held at the jail to hospital. Officials had not said which drugs were involved, and an official who spoke anonymously told the paper the death was fentanyl-related. That account has not been confirmed by officials on the record.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of an overdose. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department officials said the death was a suspected overdose, and an anonymous official said it was fentanyl-related.
Reported by: Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.