An investigation is currently underway after an inmate, Everett Edwards, age 58, was found unresponsive at the Oklahoma County Detention Center (OCDC) and later pronounced dead, KFOR reports. According to officials, at approximately 3:50 p.m. yesterday, medical staff were conducting routine checks when they discovered Edwards unresponsive in his cell.
Jail personnel initiated life-saving measures before EMSA paramedics and Oklahoma City firefighters arrived to continue medical interventions. The inmate was transported to a local hospital, where he was declared dead just before 4:50 p.m., KFOR detailed in a release.
KOCO noted that Edwards had been detained since June 27 on charges of robbery, or attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon. A probable cause affidavit indicated that Edwards allegedly assaulted a woman at Remington Park on the day of his booking. The woman claimed that Edwards, described as a "man in a wheel chair with 1 prosthetic leg and amputated other leg," followed her, brandished a handgun, and stole her vehicle.
This incident marks the Oklahoma County jail's eighth inmate death of 2025, surpassing the previous year's total count. Back in May, the jail reported the suicide of a convicted murderer, which, at the time, was the seventh death for the year. In a sobering reflection on the facility's track record, The Oklahoman highlighted that a yearlong investigation in 2023 revealed the facility had become among the deadliest jails in the nation since a trust took over operations in July 2020.
