Ten people – seven Henrico County sheriff’s deputies and three Central State Hospital employees – were named suspects in the 28-year-old’ Black man’s death. In the end, the grand jury indicted all ten suspects.
The video shows that Otieno is so completely covered by deputies and staff that only glimpses of him can be seen in the first 20 minutes of the video: the top of his head for a moment, a twitching foot.
Irvo Otieno died March 6 of apparent suffocation brought on when the deputies and CSH staffers restrained him over a 12-minute period.
At the request of Otieno’s family, Baskervill released the hospital video to the public once the grand jury reached its decision.