Charles Adair, a 50-year-old Wyandotte County Jail inmate, died July 5 during a struggle with jail employees that included one jail officer kneeling on Adair's back.

The autopsy report states Adair "went unresponsive" during the struggle, and an EMS crew ordered to the scene pronounced him dead.

Information from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation stated Adair received medical care at about 8:30 p.m. for a preexisting leg wound

Adair began yelling, resisting efforts to calm him down, and did not comply with orders from jail employees, according to the KBI.

The internal examination during the autopsy revealed "multiple rib fractures and a sternal fracture, bilateral pleural effusions, cardiomegaly with biventricular hypertrophy, a pacemaker with two wires, marked pulmonary congestion and

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