Enrique Lucio Davila, 24, was arrested on the 500 block of Brainerd Avenue in St. Paul on an outstanding felony arrest warrant, the Woodbury Police Department said Thursday.
A Minnesota nurse who was working at the Beltrami County Jail in August 2018 is speaking publicly for the first time about the events that led up to the death of a 27-year-old Black man who died while in custody more than two years ago in Bemidji, Minnesota.
According to Stephanie Lundblad, Hardel Sherrell was denied medical care until his death although he repeatedly pleaded for help. Lundblad said staff members accused him of feigning paralysis and other symptoms.
“I felt like I had witnessed a murder,” she told KARE 11.
Sherrell first arrived at the jail on Aug. 24, 2018. He had been arrested on charges of unlawful possession of a firearm. Over a period of six days, his condition deteriorated. Although by the morning of Aug. 28 he told guards and a nurse he could not feel anything from the waist down, the nurse and guards at the jail insisted he was faking. Video footage shows Sherrell’s limp form being dragged from a wheel chair to a cot on the floor as he grew increasin