Corpus Christi police officers were moments from getting 44-year-old Richard Bendle into the booking process at Nueces County Jail in Corpus Christi, Texas, when he suffered a health issue indicative of a likely overdose of narcotics. Bendle was transported to a medical facility but died on the same day as his arrest, April 13, 2021.

To continue from the previous installment of this series, the following are details shared about the death of an inmate who was allegedly denied medical care and died several days later.

Witnesses Claim an Inmate’s Death was Preventable

An inmate began to vomit continuously, and fellow inmates have said that no medical assistance was provided at that time. The inmate died five days later.

The inmate’s custodial death report stated that he died of natural causes. It further says that on an unspecified date, the inmate was discovered to be unresponsive in his cell. Members of the jail medical staff and detention officers provided emergency care until emergency medical services could arrive. At first, he had no pulse and was not breathing. Medical personnel performed CPR, which got the heart working again. The inmate was transported to a hospital, where, on the following day, he was removed from life support by the hospital staff.

See Part 1 and this continuing series.

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