The medical examiner’s office ruled the 18-year-old’s death an accident, but his mother rejected the finding. The university told The Washington Post in September that it could not comment on a student’s health record. In the week before his arrest, Lobo-Perez had begun drinking more and using hard drugs, according to friends on campus. He was taken to the jail, where a night magistrate required he be held until “no longer intoxicated,” according to a commitment order. Instead, half an hour after declining breakfast at about 7:20 a.m., the teenager was found unresponsive in his cell.

Source: Washington Post December 17, 2019 22:40 UTC