Overview

• Tasha D. Grant, 39, died in May after “physical restraint in the setting of congestive heart failure,” with coronary artery disease and Type 1 diabetes listed as contributing conditions.
• The Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Office has opened an investigation, and Prosecutor Michael O’Malley named Brian Kraft as special prosecutor to review the death.
• An autopsy summary says Grant became agitated at MetroHealth on May 5, was restrained during a legal intervention, and was found unresponsive about 14 to 15 minutes later.
• Grant had been moved from the county jail to MetroHealth on May 2 after reporting chest pains, which county records described as a medical emergency.
• The medical examiner emphasized that the ‘homicide’ classification is a medicolegal finding that does not itself allege criminal wrongdoing, and records show Grant’s court-ordered competency evaluation was unfinished; her death is the jail’s third this year.