Daniel Maldonado Dies After Being in Bexar County, Texas Jail

The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, in San Antonio, Texas, filed a report regarding the custodial death of Daniel Maldonado. Mr. Maldonado was only 31 years old at the time of his death. We provide information we obtained from that report, and we make no allegation of any wrongdoing against anyone. 

The summary portion of the report reads in its entirety:

“At 0650 hours, the Bexar County Sheriff’s command staff was notified by Deputy Sonny Montes #1953 that a Code Blue was called for Inmate Maldonado, Daniel #907342, who was admitted to University Hospital Sky Tower 9-079. Lifesaving measures were administered; however, Inmate Maldonado was pronounced deceased at 0728 by Dr. Eugene Stolow.”

Our jail abuse and neglect law firm reviews Texas custodial death reports on a frequent basis. The description regarding Mr. Maldonado’s death is one of the shortest descriptions we have seen of-late. It provides no information at all about any issues Mr. Maldonado had been having, how often he had been observed, what caused the medical emergency, or virtually anything else at all regarding the context surrounding Mr. Maldonado needing emergency care and ultimately passing away.

The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office also chose not to provide any information at all in the report for the following fields: Medical Treatment Description; Code of Charges; Manner of Death Description; Intoxicated; Death Code; and Custody Code. The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office did indicate that Mr. Maldonado did not make any suicidal statements or exhibit any mental health problems.

Mr. Maldonado, as is true with all other inmates in Texas county jails, had constitutional rights to receive reasonable medical care. If a person who is held in a Texas jail has his or her rights violated, due to deliberate indifference by jailers as to medical needs, or the policy, practice, and/or custom of the county, and the person dies as a result, then certain surviving family members may be able to file a federal lawsuit. Such lawsuits are to recover damages not only for conscious pain and suffering by the deceased, but also for loss of the relationship between family members and the deceased.

Written By: Dean Malone

Dean Malone

Dean Malone is the founder of Law Offices of Dean Malone, P.C., a jail neglect civil rights law firm. Mr. Malone earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Texas at Dallas, graduating summa cum laude with a 4.0 GPA, and from Baylor University School of Law with a general civil litigation concentration. Mr. Malone served in several staff positions for the Baylor Law Review, including executive editor. Mr. Malone is an experienced trial lawyer, trying a number of cases to jury verdict and also handling arbitrations through final hearing. He heads the jail neglect section of his law firm, in which lawyers litigate cases involving serious injury and death resulting from jail neglect and abuse. Lawyers frequently refer cases to Mr. Malone due to his focus on this very complicated civil rights practice area.