The original version of a custodial death report (CDR) about 55-year-old Bennie Ray Bell was filed by the El Paso Sheriff’s Office on August 12, 2022. Mr. Bell’s cause of death is currently pending an autopsy. Eventually, an amended version of the CDR will be filed, revealing what caused Mr. Bell’s tragic July 24, 2022, death in El Paso County Jail Annex located at 12501 Montana in El Paso TX 78838.

Two Inmates Die of Mixed Drug Toxicity in the El Paso County Downtown Detention Facility

While he was jailed in the El Paso County Downtown Detention Facility, 31-year-old Justin Joshua Flores died on December 6, 2021. The cause of death was mixed drug toxicity—specifically, amphetamine and benzodiazepines.

In the same El Paso, Texas, jail, 23-year-old Brandon Pacheco Calzada died on December 24, 2021. Acute mixed drug toxicity is listed as the medical cause of death. The named drugs that were reportedly found in his system were fentanyl, hydroxyzine, trazodone, venlafaxine and 10-hydroxycarbazepine.

Two Inmates Commit Suicide in the El Paso County Downtown Detention Facility

Thirty-seven-year-old Robert John Barela was booked into the El Paso County Downtown Detention Facility on November 26, 2021. Tragically, he used a bedsheet to commit suicide in his single-occupancy cell and died on February 23, 2022.

On May 10, 2022, 39-year-old Andres Linares Baca was booked into the El Paso jail on Overland. He also used a bedsheet to commit suicide, and he died on May 29, 2022.

Learn more in Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 of this series.

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