Seven US deputies in Virginia charged with murder of man in custody. Prosecutors accuse the deputies of suffocating 28-year-old Irvo Otieno earlier this month.

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Irvo Otieno, a 28-year-old black man, died on 6 March while he was being transferred from a jail to a mental health facility. His hands and legs were both cuffed and he was held on the ground for 12 minutes by all seven Henrico County deputy sheriffs, said Dinwiddie County Commonwealth's lawyer Ann Cabell Baskervill in court on Wednesday. "The seven deputies were identified by prosecutors as Randy Joseph Boyer, 57, Dwayne Alan Bramble, 37, Jermaine Lavar Branch, 45, Bradley Thomas Disse, 43, Tabitha Renee Levere, 50, Brandon Edwards Rodgers, 48, and Kaiyell Dajour Sanders, 30

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