Otieno, 28, died on March 6 after deputies from the Henrico County Sheriff s Office dragged him out of his room and pinned him to the ground inside the Central State Hospital.
Less than a week after his funeral, Irvo Otieno’s official cause of death has been announced following his death in police custody during an alleged mental health crisis.
Irvo Otieno, a 28-year-old Black man whose death last month at a Virginia mental hospital has sparked outrage and led to second-degree murder charges against 10 defendants, died of "positional and mechanical asphyxia with restraints," a medical examiner's office said Monday.