Authorities: Staff struggled with teen who died in custody
September 30, 2021
BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — Multiple staff members at a Kansas juvenile facility engaged in a physical struggle with a 17-year-old youth who was restrained and died two days later at a hospital, authorities said.
Details of the events leading up to the in-custody death of Cedric "CJ' Lofton emerged late Tuesday in a news release from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation that also identified the Wichita teen for the first time.
An autopsy has been conducted and a cause of death is pending further investigation and toxicology results, the agency said.
The Black teenager's encounter with law en...
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