Michigan inmate who served 44 years for murder dies from novel coronavirus days before his release from prison.
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"His bunkmate said that he was gasping for air and he called out for help, and our officers rushed in, performed life-saving measures, got the ambulance in there, got him to the hospital," Gautz said."Once he was at the hospital and died, the doctors there decided to test him postmortem for COVID-19."
I'm the only person who closely stood with my brother for 44 years and walked this road with him. We're heartbroken because he was coming home. "It speaks to the insidious nature of this virus that some people can have no symptoms at all and all of a sudden, just like that, they're having these issues," Gautz said."It's just very unfortunate."He said that 81 prisoners at the Macomb Correctional Facility, which houses about 1,300 inmates, hadas of Monday night. He said no other coronavirus-linked deaths have occurred at the prison.
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