Lawsuit claims Las Vegas-area jail guards beat inmate to demise

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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The household of a person who died inside a Nevada jail is suing the state, claiming jail staff beat and killed him whereas he was having an bronchial asthma assault.

Patrick Odale, 39, died on Dec. 28, 2023, whereas incarcerated on the Three Lakes Valley Conservation Camp, a neighboring facility to the Southern Desert Correctional Middle. Odale was serving a 16-to-48-month sentence on a cost involving a stolen bank card.

In 2022, a decide sentenced Odale to probation on the theft cost. Odale was later picked up on a cost for knife possession and ordered to jail.

Simply weeks earlier than his demise, the Nevada Parole Board granted Odale parole.

“Yes, I want parole,” Odale stated within the listening to, in response to the lawsuit. “I have a family to get back to. I am ready to get out and be a better father to my kids.” The division was anticipated to launch him in January 2024.

Odale leaves behind a 15-year-old daughter and a 12-year-old son.

On the day of his demise, Odale approached the “bubble area” of his housing unit, complaining of an bronchial asthma assault, paperwork stated. A correctional officer then “immediately began spraying […] pepper spray in Patrick’s face multiple times, causing Patrick to back himself into a ‘tool closet’ for protection,” paperwork stated. “During this time, several offenders heard Patrick begging for medical staff and stating that he could not breathe and that [they] were going to ‘kill’ him.”

The officers then eliminated Odale from the closet, allegedly slamming his head in opposition to a metal door, the lawsuit stated.

“Eyewitness accounts claim that Patrick was brutally beaten, hog-tied, and held face down by approximately six to eight correctional officers [and other officers in the housing unit], until he was dead,” the lawsuit stated.

“Video shows the decedent en-route and in the corrections infirmary, moving and groaning with hands shackled behind the back in a prone position,” the coroner’s report stated. “There is intermittent pressure by staff on the decedent’s torso, shoulders and arms.”

A number of minutes of video are lacking, the lawsuit stated.

Odale’s reason for demise was listed as “positional and mechanical asphyxia in the setting of law enforcement restraint,” information stated. His method of demise was listed as murder.

“Patrick endured terror, humiliation, and conscious physical agony during the prolonged restraint and denial of medical care, as evidenced by his pleas for help and the Coroner’s findings of ‘positional and mechanical asphyxia,’” the lawsuit stated.

The coroner’s report claims officers administered three doses of naloxone, the opioid-overdose antidote to Odale “without medical justification,” the lawsuit stated. The coroner’s workplace additionally decided there have been “low levels of methamphetamine” in Odale’s system on the time of his demise, one thing his household refutes.

The lawsuit lists the Nevada Division of Corrections, its director, correctional officers, and different NDOC workers, in addition to the coroner’s workplace, as defendants.

Neither the Division of Corrections nor the Nevada Lawyer Common’s Workplace, which investigates prisoner deaths, instantly responded to requests for remark.

James Urrutia, the lawyer who represents Odale’s household, stated the lawyer basic’s workplace did not take motion by not charging any officers concerned.

Urrutia additionally represents the mom of Christian Walker, 44, who was discovered unresponsive inside his cell at Excessive Desert State Jail in 2023. Officers used pressure in opposition to him two days prior, in response to information.

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