CENTRAL STATE HOSPITAL

The Rev. Al Sharpton will deliver the eulogy at the funeral of a 28-year-old Black man who died after he was pinned to the floor by seven sheriff’s deputies and several others while he was being admitted to a mental hospital in Virginia.

Funeral arrangements are being planned for Irvo Otieno, a 28-year-old man who died earlier this month at Central State Hospital while under police custody in Henrico County.

Ten people are facing second-degree murder charges in connection to the death of Irvo Otieno earlier this month.

Attorney Ben Crump, co-counsel Mark Krudys, and the family of Irvo Otieno will speak out following the public release of the video of Irvo’s death and in anticipation of the results of the case being presented before a grand jury.

Newly obtained surveillance video shows a group of sheriff’s deputies and other employees at a Virginia mental hospital pinning a patient to the ground until he was motionless and limp.

Three hospital employees are charged in the death of Ivor Otieno, a mental health patient who died last week in the custody of Henrico County Sheriff’s Deputies.

Authorities are warning people to be on the lookout for an escape from a Virginia mental hospital with ties to Southwest Virginia.

Virginia mental hospitals are struggling with dangerously high numbers of patients, a state official told lawmakers this week.