NORTH CHARLESTON — The first Charleston County jail inmate to die in 2025 did so by natural causes related to heart disease, the county coroner has found.

Donald Lee Robinson, 58, suffered a medical emergency at the jail on April 7 and was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The Mullins man had been held at the Sheriff Al Cannon Detention Center on a pending conspiracy to distribute drugs charge from Florence, The Post and Courier previously reported .

His primary cause of death was ischemic heart disease with hypertensive heart disease as a contributing factor, the Charleston County Coroner’s Office told the newspaper on Sept. 4. Robinson’s manner of death was natural.

In August, another detention center inmate died. Mary Brucato , 23, was pronounced dea

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