LEFLORE COUNTY – Officials said an inmate at the Leflore County Jail was pronounced dead after being found unresponsive in his bunk. Eddie Moore, 43, of Greenwood, was transported to the Mississippi Crime Lab for an autopsy after Leflore County Sheriff Ricky Banks said he was found last Thursday. Preliminary reports show that Moore died of natural causes.
Banks said Moore was alone in his cell when he was found, and that he had been arrested the day before for public drunkenness, public profanity and disturbing a family. Banks said Moore had been in and out of jail within the last two years on similar charges.
“He lived with his mother,” Banks said, “and the Greenwood Police Department arrested him for causing trouble there and they took him to jail.”
Banks said when Moore was brought in on Feb. 3, medical personnel at the jail examined him and said that other than acute intoxication, he didn’t exhibit any other symptoms.
“They had made some checks on him, two that I know of, where they look in to make sure he was in there,” Banks said. “And he was laying on the bed every time they looked. But when they called to feed him, he didn’t answer.”
Banks said it was unclear if Moore had eaten breakfast or lunch with the other inmates that day, but attempts to revive Moore by the medical personnel on staff were unsuccessful.
“The coroner was called and she did the inquest there at the jail and she notified the Mississippi Mortuary Service to come and pick the body up and take it for an autopsy,” Banks said.
Complete autopsy and toxicology reports on Moore are still pending.
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