Knoxville News-Sentinel
JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. — The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is probing the death of an inmate who suffered a severe head injury just hours after being booked into the Washington County Detention Center.
On Wednesday, a TBI spokesman confirmed officers booked Charles Williams into the jail in Jonesborough on Jan. 6. He was charged with public intoxication.
He died in the Johnson City Medical Center five days later.
Williams’ daughter told the Bristol Herald Courier her father suffered a severe skull fracture. She said jailers found him in a pool of blood in a jail cell and there were no witnesses to what happened.
The district attorney general requested a TBI investigation. A Washington County Sheriff’s office spokesman said that’s standard protocol and would not comment on the case.