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Scott, 26, arrested after a March 14 disturbance at an outlet mall, was acting in an erratic manner and police were concerned for his safety because of the possible ingestion of drugs, they said at the time.
7 Texas Officers Are Fired in Death of Black Man Restrained in Jail A 26-year-old man detained at the Collin County Jail on a misdemeanor marijuana charge died after being pepper-sprayed and placed in a spit hood. “We want answers,” LaSandra Scott, Marvin Scott’s mother, said at a news conference last week.Credit...NBCDFW April 1, 2021 Seven sheriff’s officers in Collin County, Texas, were fired on Thursday in connection with the death of Marvin D. Scott III, a 26-year-old Black man who died after being restrained at the county jail last month. “Evidence I have seen confirms that th...
Updated on April 2, 2021 at 2:44 pm NBCUniversal, Inc. The statement, released Thursday afternoon, said the detention officers were terminated on March 14 for violating sheriff's office policies and procedures leading up to the death of 26-year-old Marvin Scott III; an eighth detention officer resigned while under investigation, the sheriff's office said. Download our NBC Washington app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. “Although the Texas Rangers’ comprehensive criminal investigation into the death of Marvin D. Scott, III continues, I have today termi...
Texas Rangers are investigating the death of a 26-year-old man at a Collin County jail on Sunday.
Seven Jail Workers Put on Leave After Death of Black Man Held Over Marijuana On 3/16/21 at 7:51 AM EDT Seven Texas detention employees have been placed on leave after the death of a Black man in custody. The Collin County Sheriff's Office said on Monday that 26-year-old Marvin D. Scott III, of Frisco, died Sunday while he was in custody at the Collin County Detention Facility in McKinney. Officers from the Allen Police Department had arrested Scott earlier on Sunday and transported him to the jail, the sheriff's office said in a news release. Scott's cause of death has not been released.