On Tuesday at 10:39 a.m., inmates at the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections told corrections officers there was an emergency in one of the housing units, jail officials said in a press release. When correction officers arrived, they found a 43-year-old white man unresponsive.

Officials said corrections officers and Louisville Fire and EMS tried to revive the man, but he was pronounced dead by 11:11 a.m.

Jail officials said the man was in custody since March. They have not yet released his identity.

LMDC’s Professional Standards Unit and Louisville Metro Police’s Public Integrity Unit will investigate the death, in keeping with standard protocol.

This was the third in-custody death this year. In February, 60-year-old Rodney Robinson died after being in custody for 24 hours. In M

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