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UPDATE – Name of Dead Stearns County Inmate Released
ST. CLOUD -Police have released the name of the man who died in the Stearns County Jail.
Sheriff John Sanner says correctional officers responded to a medical emergency in the jail at about 8:30 a.m. this (Friday) morning. 22 year-old Jerome Harrell was taken by ambulance to St. Cloud Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. Police say
Harrell was being held in the jail on a Hennepin County arrest warrant when he died.
The incident remains under investigation.
EDITOR'S NOTE: In an earlier version, WJON News used an incorrect booking photo of Jerome Harrell, a man with the same name as the man who died. That photo was an error. We regret any confusion this may have caused our readers.
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