A Kansas City jail deputy has been charged with murder after an inmate died by suffocation this summer, a county district attorney announced.

Wyandotte County District Attorney’s Office Prosecutor Mark Dupree, during a Thursday, July 18 press conference, said local sheriff's deputy Richard Fatherley has been charged with second-degree murder and felony involuntary manslaughter in the July 5 in-custody death of 50-year-old Charles Adair.

The death took place at the county jail in Kansas City, Kansas , officials said, and a coroner ruled the inmate died as a result of complications from asphyxiation.

Dupree said Fatherley worked at the detention center and in the courthouse and, as of Friday, was on unpaid administrative leave.

He offered condolences to Adair's mother and cousins

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