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The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office on Monday reported the death of an inmate at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin over the weekend.
The circumstances of the death of 30-year-old Abrion William McElmore, who had been in custody for nearly two years on suspicion of rape and other charges, remains under investigation by the sheriff’s and district attorney’s offices, according the sheriff’s Capt. Tya Modeste.
Sheriff’s deputies originally booked McElmore — an unhoused Black man known to frequent San Lorenzo, Hayward and Castro Valley — into Santa Rita on Sept. 9, 2022 at around 3:30 a.m. for multiple felonies including forcible rape, assault, burglary, trespassing and drug charges, according to Modeste. His criminal case was still active in the county court system.
Modeste said a deputy found McElmore unresponsive in his cell just after 12:30 p.m. Saturday (Aug. 24). Personnel with Wellpath, Falck Ambulance and Alameda County Fire Department were called to the scene and performed life-saving measures, but McElmore did not regain consciousness and was pronounced dead at 1:02 p.m.
The Alameda County Coroner’s Bureau informed McElmore’s next-of-kin. “The medical examiner will determine the cause of death, as it is currently unknown,” Modeste said. “The death investigation is ongoing, and no further information is currently available.”
