CLEVELAND, Ohio - The death of a Cuyahoga County Jail inmate has been ruled a homicide, authorities said.

Tasha Grant, 39, of Cleveland died from “physical restraint in the setting of congestive heart failure,” a spokesman for the medical examiner’s office said Thursday.

County officials said Grant was transported from the jail to MetroHealth Medical Center on May 2 because of “preexisting conditions that resulted in an emergency.”

She died at the hospital three days later, said Jennifer Ciaccia, a county spokeswoman.

Sheriff’s deputies are investigating.

Grant was in the jail after she was charged with assaulting two UH Southwest General Medical Center police officers in September. A county grand jury indicted her on the charges in October.

While in jail, she had been undergoing tes

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