The KBI is assisting Sedgwick County officials over a death in the Sedgwick County Jail early Monday morning.
According to officials, at approximately 12:15 a-m, Monday, detention and medical staff responded to a medical emergency in a single person cell. Medical staff assumed care of a 60- year-old Robert Ward Dalen until he was transported by EMS to a Wichita hospital. He was pronounced dead at around 2:40 a-m.
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation and Sheriff’s Office detectives were notified of the death per policy. An autopsy was expected to be performed Monday.
Dalen had been booked into the jail on June 27, on bench warrants from the City of Wichita.
This is the first death in the jail this year. In 2012, there were 2 suicides and 3 natural deaths of inmates in custody.