SPORTS Baron Classic Wilson Hall hosts rival Thomas Sumter, other regional teams in hoops tournament B1 SERVING SOUTH CAROLINA SINCE OCTOBER 15, 1894 SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2018 $1.75 LOCAL: Morris College named Purple Heart College A2 Inmate dies after found unconscious Family member claims Sumter man was found with needle in arm, SLED investigating BY ADRIENNE SARVIS sponsive with a needle in his arm" at She said nurses in the emergency The family member said Browder
[email protected] about 3 a.m. Thursday. room who looked after Browder said had gastrointestinal bleeding, which She made these statements Friday Narcan had been administered, but he could indicate that he ingested, or ate, A Sumter-Lee Regional Detention morning. did not respond to it. something harmful, she said. Center inmate was pronounced dead She said she was told of Browder’s That indcates that it was not opioids A second family member said Saturday morning after he was found condition at 6:22 a.m. after he had nor heroin in his system, she said. Browder told his father he’d stopped unconscious Thursday morning, ac- gone into cardiac arrest three times. Browder only tested positive for eating cafeteria food at the jail after cording to Sumter County Sheriff's Of- “I should have been notified as soon marijuana, she said, and no one has hearing a rumor that someone fice. as he was found unresponsive,” she said what was in the syringe. planned to poison him. According to an immediate family said. No one knows how the needle got He only ate food from the vending member, Daniel Browder Jr., 38, was The family member said before into the prison, the family member machine, he said.