Patient dies at Central State Hospital
A patient at the state’s only maximum security mental health hospital died over the weekend, although officials have said little about how it happened.
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A patient at the state’s only maximum security mental health hospital died over the weekend, although officials have said little about how it happened.
A jury found a Dinwiddie County man guilty of killing his teenage cousin in 2018. Anton Coleman was found guilty Thursday of second-degree murder in 17-year-old Ke'Asia Adkins' death.
The third trial of a Dinwiddie County man accused of killing his teen cousin in 2018 began in Powhatan County Tuesday, after the first two attempts ended in a mistrial.
The family of Irvo Otieno – who died in March while being admitted to a Virginia mental health facility – is asking the Department of Justice for a federal investigation into his death, their attorneys announced Wednesday.
Attorneys for the family of Irvo Otieno, a man who died in police custody during a mental crisis, asked the Department of Justice to open a criminal investigation into his death, according to The Associated Press. The request comes right behind the resignation of the county’s prosecuting attorney.