From The Marshall Project:
This story was published in partnership with the Houston Chronicle
For four days, deputies from the Harris County Sheriff’s Office barred entry to Evan Lee’s hospital room. By the time his mother, Jacilet Griffin, was allowed inside, doctors told her he was brain-dead.
It wasn’t jail officials who explained what had happened to her 31-year-old son, Griffin said. The few details she got came from hospital staff, who said Lee had arrived at Houston’s Ben Taub Hospital with a critical brain injury. Just four months earlier, he was alive and in generally good health, with his diabetes and other underlying conditions under control, his mother said. Then he was booked into the county jail.
Though the county medical examiner ruled his death a homicide due to a head injury, no public agency has ever provided a clear account of what led to his injury — and no one has been charged. Continue reading >>>
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