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Alabama man dies after guards leave him in a jail freezer [1]

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Date: 2023-02-15  

Anthony Mitchell, a 33-year-old Alabama man suffering from serious mental health issues, died recently from hypothermia after being confined naked in the walk-in freezer of the Walker County Jail.

Mitchell had been having a breakdown when a relative called police. Deputies arrived to find Mitchell had spray-painted his face black and they say he fired shots at them before fleeing. He was arrested and taken to jail.

He ended up dead and now his family claims in a lawsuit that there was horrendous abuse committed.

The Sheriff’s Office spokesperson, according to the suit, told the family they’d get him medical help in Walker County Jail. Instead, guards tased Mitchell and locked him in a freezer, killing him, the suit alleges. The suit filed Monday also contends jail leadership began a cover up of Mitchell’s death hours before he died.

Mitchell had some pretty serious mental health and drug issues that required evaluation and treatment rather than being treated like a piece of meat.

Mitchell, who had a history of addiction to methamphetamine, lived with his father in Carbon Hill, Alabama. His mother paid his utility bills and brought him food, according to the lawsuit. Mitchell spiraled out of control in the months after his father’s death this fall taking drugs and experiencing mental health problems, according to the suit. He lost about 100 pounds in three months. He looked so “haggard and emaciated, that his cousin, Steve, said he almost didn’t recognize him when he showed up at his house on January 13, according to the complaint. Mitchell said he wanted to share a secret no one else knew. “Obviously delusional, Tony told Steve that he, Tony, had a brother who had been stillborn, which was true. Tony further told Steve that his parents had put the baby brother’s body in a box that was hidden in the attic of the house.” This was not correct, according to the complaint.

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