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The 12 videos offer a fuller picture of what happened to Otieno in the days and hours before his in-custody death, which drew outrage over law enforcement's use of force, led to an $8.5 million ...
On the two-year anniversary of Irvo Otieno's death comes a new development in his case. Court documents obtained by 8News ...
A little over a week after a jury reached a not-guilty verdict in the first trial regarding the 2023 death of Irvo Otieno at Central State Hospital, the victim's family is fighting once again to ...
Officers who encountered Otieno on March 3, 2023, at first took him to Parham Doctors’ Hospital for a mental health evaluation. But after he assaulted an officer there, police booked him into ...
A jury found a former orderly at Central State Hospital not guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Irvo Otieno – a man whose death at the state psychiatric hospital was recorded and ...
The first trial in the case of Otieno, 28, began Monday in Dinwiddie, Va., after months of unusual moves by prosecutors scaling back what had started as a sprawling murder investigation.
A Dinwiddie County judge denied an effort to strike the involuntary manslaughter charge against a former state mental hospital worker on trial in the death of Irvo Otieno — whose in-custody d… ...
The defense team for a man charged in the death of Irvo Otieno, who died in custody at a Virginia-run mental hospital, rested its case Thursday. Skip to content WRIC ABC 8News ...
The in-custody death of Irvo Otieno could have been prevented if not for “the complete breakdown of Virginia’s mental health crisis system and the Commonwealth’s culture of criminalizing ...