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| Death of Texas Jail Prisoner is Ruled as Self-defense |
| By Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
| Published: 09/16/2002 |
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No charges will be filed in last month's death of a 39-year-old prisoner, fatally injured during a fight with another prisoner, officials say, because the surviving prisoner fought back in self-defense. It was the second recent death in a Forth Worth jail facility. Bernard Lado died Aug. 6 at John Peter Smith Hospital after suffering a head injury Aug. 1 in a fight in a holding cell at the downtown Fort Worth police station's jail intake unit, police Lt. Jesse Hernandez said. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office ruled the death a homicide by blunt-force trauma. Police decided not to press charges against the other prisoner in the fight, Christopher Perales, 23, Hernandez said. Lado was picked up just after 11 p.m. on July 31 and placed in a DWI holding cell with Perales and other prisoners. The fight broke out about 4 a.m. the next day, Hernandez said. As many as 15 people - jailers and other prisoners - witnessed the fight, and detectives determined from their statements and surveillance pictures that Lado attacked Perales, Hernandez said. Perales hit Lado in the face with a fist to defend himself, and the blow caused Lado to fall backward and hit his head on a concrete ledge, Hernandez said. Perales called the Star-Telegram from jail and said he did not mean to kill Lado. Perales said that Lado had acted as if he were going to put his hands around his throat. 'He put his hands on me first,' Perales said. Perales remains in jail serving a 90-day sentence for driving while intoxicated, possession of marijuana and driving with a suspended license, all unrelated to Lado, jail records indicate. |
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