Mocobizscene– According to a recently revealed autopsy from the Los Angeles Medical Examiner’s Office, a 19-year-old Long Beach man who died in the Los Angeles County Jail while awaiting trial on murder charges overdosed on fentanyl.
Kamren Nettles was being imprisoned at Men’s Central Jail on charges that he killed a Wilson High School student who was assisting him in robbing an illicit marijuana business in Compton last year.
Investigators never revealed all of the details surrounding the shooting. Still, video footage from the shop released by the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department appears to show Nettles and three co-conspirators entering the dispensary, which was disguised as a smoke shop, and quickly engaging in a shootout with a security guard.
According to authorities, Wilson High School senior Justin Culberson, who was a participant in the crime, was slain in the exchange. Nettles left the scene but was soon apprehended and charged with murder and attempted murder. Nettles pleaded not guilty and was held in jail instead of more than $3 million in bail.
According to the medical examiner’s report, the 19-year-old was watching TV in another inmate’s cell and looking at photos around 1:30 a.m. on May 13 when he chose to return to his cell. A deputy responsible for checking on the inmates found Nettles lying prone on the bottom bunk of a cell thirty minutes later.
According to the statement, “the decedent was found unresponsive with blood and foam coming from his mouth and nostrils.” Despite deputies’ efforts to reverse the effects of the drugs by administering Narcan and resuscitation efforts, Nettles was pronounced dead just before 3 a.m.
According to the report, the medical examiner’s office discovered evidence of fentanyl in his blood during an autopsy and determined he died accidentally as a result of its effects. Deputies did not indicate where Nettles could have received drugs in their statement to the medical examiner’s office. However, according to Sheriff Robert Luna, many convicts get medicines delivered to the facility through the mail.
This year, Nettles was the 15th person to die at the Los Angeles County Jail. Twenty-nine additional convicts have perished since his death. According to the department’s data, at least three of those 29 died as a result of medication effects. According to the Los Angeles Times, Nettles’ mother stood before the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors and participated in a rally seeking the closure of Men’s Central Jail a month after his death.
“I don’t know what it’s going to take for you guys to close that jail,” she told the board, sporting a shirt with a picture of her son. “How many people have to die?”
Luna recently told the Los Angeles Times that he’s been working on a proposal to modify Men’s Central Jail dramatically – and possibly close it entirely.
“Men’s Central Jail needs to be replaced,” he stated during the interview. “We need something that resembles a caring campus that can deal with what custody should look like toward the future.” According to Luna, this may involve abolishing the mail system to prevent narcotics from entering jails and instead allowing detainees to communicate with their families via tablets.
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