Overview
- Authorities say jail medical staff responded around 5:38 a.m. after Kirk Richardson, 61, injured himself by banging his head inside a cell at the Martinez Detention Facility.
- Richardson was transported to a hospital and was medically cleared to return to the jail at about 8:30 a.m., according to the sheriff’s office.
- He was described as uncooperative during the return transport, and jail medical staff later administered an unspecified medication.
- A deputy found Richardson unresponsive in his cell at about 5:48 p.m.; CPR was performed and medics responded, but he was pronounced dead.
- Richardson had been arrested on December 31 on two counts of murder after his parents, William, 90, and Joyce, 85, were found shot to death in their Concord home.