Overview

• Correction officials said Jimmy Avila suffered an apparent medical emergency at the West Facility, where staff and EMS were unable to revive him before he was pronounced dead at 4:29 p.m. Saturday.
• The Department of Correction opened an inquiry and notified the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, the state attorney general, the federal monitor, the Board of Correction, the city Department of Investigation, the state Commission of Correction, and local prosecutors.
• Avila had been arrested and charged with murder, attempted murder, and weapons offenses in the Aug. 27 shooting at a Bronx apartment building that killed superintendent Ryan Hines, 37, and wounded two other men.
• Officials and advocates counted Avila as the 11th person to die in city custody this year and the second Rikers fatality in about a week.
• Avila was held without bail after his arraignment and had a Sept. 2 court date scheduled, with the cause of death pending autopsy and investigative findings.