Forsyth County Jail s medical provider is scheduled to stand trial in April 2023 over allegations that staff repeatedly ignored a Winston-Salem man s asthma, leading to his death more than three years ago.Â
Deshawn Lamont Coley, 39, was one of two Winston-Salem men who died at the Forsyth County Jail in May 2017. Coley died in the early morning hours of May 2, 2017, less than a month after he came into the jail to serve a six-month sentence for driving while impaired. An autopsy said he died as a result of complications from asthma.
On May 26, 2017, another man, Stephen Antwan Patterson, 40, died at the jail.