Ten charged in ‘tortured’ death of Virginia man at mental hospital

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Ten people have been charged in the death of Irvo Otieno, a Virginia man who died on March 6 in Dinwiddie County after being handcuffed, shackled, and pinned to the ground by deputies while experiencing a mental health crisis first at a local jail and then at a state hospital, according to Otieno’s relatives and their attorneys.

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