Authorities are investigating the death of a 61-year-old man in a jail cell at the Pre-Trial Detention Center in Ventura on Thursday.
Deputies were checking on inmates just after 6 p.m. when they found Michael Larios Torres unresponsive in his cell, Ventura County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Ron Chips said in a written statement.
“Deputies immediately began to render aid and summoned jail medical staff,” he said. Paramedics pronounced Torres dead at 6:55 p.m.
Torres cause of death was not clear, officials said. An autopsy is pending.
As in all inmate deaths, detectives from the Major Crimes Bureau are handling the investigation.
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