Family speaks after Vigo County Jail inmate dies

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I'm patrece dayton.

One family is grieving after their family member died in the vigo county jail.

This happened over the weekend.

News 10's porsha williams spoke with the family today.

We now bring you continuing coverage of what the family says is his untimely death.

Medical personnel said..

Frederick whitlock did test positive for covid-19.

I reached out to the coroners office to check on the official cause of death.

The coroner told me no information would be released until the autopsy results were final.

[take pkg outcue: for covid-19 duration:1:06] <"just because people are incarcerated for the mistakes they made they are human" a judge sentence frederick whitlock to 22 years behind bars for his role in a stabbing.

This was a few weeks ago.

Now the family is grieving his death.

His nephew marquis whitlock expressed his frustrations.

"i feel like it's a shame my uncle had to pass away with these circumstances without him being around his family and nobody getting to see him before he passed away."

Frederick whitlock's friend says he's worried about the other inmates in the vigo county jail.

"my knowledge is..

I'm concerned bout every inmate white black.

I'm concerned about them.

I think they ought to seek medical attention.

Sheriff john plasse says the vigo county jail has been..

And continues to take the necessay to keep the inmates safe.

"after we found out we had covid in the jail we have masks to everybody but unfortunatly not everybody uses the masks.

That's something that we really can't enforce."

The sheriff says they are in the process of testing everyone in the jail for covid-19.

Sheriff jon plasse says they should have those results in by wednesday.

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Police have released new video in an unsolved homicide.

Tomorrow marks the 8th anniversary of the death of 85-year-old lowell badger of sullivan county .

Please stop what you're doing and look at your screen.

Police say these people were in the area of badger's home in the time-frame he was killed.

Police are looking for information on the individuals "and" the truck.

Badger was killed in 20-12 at his home in sullivan county.

Police say he was killed police say county.

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Frame he was in the time-badger's home area of were in the these people police say at your screen.

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Of sullivan lowell badger 85-year-old the death of anniversary of marks the 8th tomorrow homicide.

Unsolved video in an released new police have you.

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