Homicide detectives from the Boston Police Department and Suffolk District Attorney’s Office are investigating the New Year’s Eve death of a Suffolk House of Correction inmate who was supposed to be coming home tomorrow, his mother said.
Darryl Leslie, 41, was in the care of correction officers moving him from minimum to maximum security shortly after 9 p.m. Monday when Leslie - 6 feet, 6 inches and 250 pounds - “became disruptive” and inexplicably “fell unconscious,” said Steven Tompkins, spokesman for Sheriff Andrea J. Cabral.
Leslie, who suffered from “a touch of asthma,” according to his mother, was pronounced dead at Boston Medical Center.
No one has been disciplined or placed on leave and jail officials are waiting on autopsy and toxicology results, Tompkins said.
“We received some information that Mr. Leslie was planning a violent attack on one of our staff,” he said, declining to elaborate. “There was no unwarranted or excessive force used on Mr. Leslie.”
But Leslie’s 60 year-old mother, Betty Maraj of Dorchester, isn’t buying any of it and suspects foul play.
“This is one hurtful New Year for me,” said Maraj, who had bought her son a jacket so he’d be warm when she picked him up Friday.
“He was in very good spirits,” Maraj said. “(Officials) can say what they want, but I know my boy. He knew the jail system. He knew what to do and what not to do. I’m not going to let this drop. This is my prayer: Let the truth come out.”
Boston police spokeswoman Elaine Driscoll confirmed, “Currently we are conducting - alongside the district attorney’s office - a death investigation into the facts and circumstances surrounding the incident.”
Leslie, one of six children and the father of a 17-year-old daughter, had been behind bars since last summer for violating a three-year probation sentence that would have expired Nov. 3. According to court records, he three times failed to report for drug screenings last year, was the subject of outstanding warrants and was in arrears for court fees totaling $3,010.
Leslie had been on probation for pleading guilty in 2005 to stealing 11 DVDs from a Dorchester Stop & Shop where he was working, and for threatening with a box cutter the loss prevention officer who tried to stop him.
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