"The Sept. 3 death follows the case of 44-year-old Jimmy Avila, who died last week after an apparent medical emergency at the West Facility on Rikers Island. Another person incarcerated at Rikers died in custody on Aug. 23. On Aug. 29, a 46-year-old man being held at Brooklyn Criminal Court was discovered unresponsive and later pronounced dead. A pedicab driver also died that day while in custody at the Midtown South Precinct."
"Correction Department officers at the George R. Vierno Center responded to a medical emergency at 7:49 p.m. on Sept. 3, according to the DOC. Medical staff and emergency services attempted to revive the man, but he was pronounced dead at 8:35 p.m. The department has tragically lost a person in our custody. We share our deepest sympathies with his loved ones. Every aspect of this incident will be investigated, correction commissioner Lynelle Maginley-Liddie said in a statement."
The city's Department of Correction reported that a man suffered what appeared to be a seizure and died in custody at Rikers Island on Sept. 3, pronounced at 8:35 p.m. He was the 12th person to die in city custody this year and the fifth in two weeks. Correction officers and medical staff attempted resuscitation and multiple oversight and investigative agencies were notified. The inmate's name was not released. Recent related deaths include Jimmy Avila and several others in late August and June. Advocates renewed demands for Rikers to be closed amid the spate of fatalities.
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