Florida Jail Inmate Jesse Wampler Dies After a Medical Emergency
In Tallahassee news, 46-year-old Jesse Wampler was booked into Florida’s Leon County Jail on October 3, 2025. He had a medical emergency the following day, according to the Leon County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO).
Jail staff took Mr. Wampler to the medical unit, where they tried to save his life. Emergency medical services were called, and they arrived to assist in lifesaving efforts. Sadly, Jesse Wampler was pronounced deceased at the scene at about 3 p.m. on October 4, 2025.
An investigation into Mr. Wampler’s death is being conducted by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The LCSO also said that no foul play is suspected and that standard protocols for in-custody deaths are all being followed. An autopsy will be performed by the Medical Examiner’s Office to determine Mr. Wampler’s cause and manner of death.
Mr. Wampler was the second inmate in less than a week who died in the custody of Leon County Jail. Richard Schwartz, 72, died on September 29, 2025, in the jail’s hospice program, called the Inmate Comfort Care Program. Mr. Schwartz was the first terminally ill patient to receive care in the program, which was launched on June 6, 2025. Like Mr. Wampler, Mr. Schwartz died after experiencing a medical emergency, as reported by LCSO officials.
The Leon County Jail is known as the Leon County Detention Facility and is located at 1500 Easterwood Drive, Tallahassee, Florida 32301. The facility has a 1,192-inmate capacity.
Inmate Kingsley Bimpong Died After Being Booked into Minnesota’s Dakota County Jail
In Minnesota news this week, details of an investigation into the November 19, 2024, death of 50-year-old Kingsley Bimpong have been published. Mr. Bimpong was a postal worker and there is evidence suggesting that he was having a stroke when police arrested him for erratic driving.
Signs that Mr. Bimpong was having a stroke were allegedly evident on body camera footage during the 6 hours that he was in custody. Officers with the Eagon Police Department saw that Mr. Bimpong appeared to be disoriented and couldn’t seem to complete a sentence. Instead of being brought to the hospital for a medical evaluation, Mr. Bimpong was taken to the Dakota County Jail after being in the custody of the Eagan police for 2 hours and 16 minutes.
The family alleges that their loved one was a victim of medical negligence. They say that in jail, Mr. Bimpong’s condition worsened even more. To sit upright during the booking process, he required support. He couldn’t speak. Allegedly, although Kingsley Bimpong spoke English fluently, the jail’s intake paperwork indicated there was a language barrier.
Video surveillance footage at the jail shows Mr. Bimpong falling onto the floor of his cell. Corrections officers allegedly marked him and his cell “okay” while Mr. Bimpong spent hours struggling on the floor, eventually losing control of his bladder.
After 3 hours and 26 minutes, Mr. Bimpong was unresponsive to pain, his eyes didn’t react to light, and his feet didn’t seem to have proper blood circulation.
Mr. Bimpong was given Narcan three times with no response. Ultimately, he was taken to a hospital, where, on November 18, he was declared brain dead. The results of an autopsy showed that he died of a brain hemorrhage. The toxicology results showed that Mr. Bimpong had no substances in his body that would have caused impairment.
The address of Dakota County Jail is 1580 Hwy 55, Hastings, Minnesota 55033.
smchugh
smchugh