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3 people face 10-yr-jail term for Nigerian student's killing in jailhouse

Ajibade, a 22-year-old bipolar college student, was arrested on New Years Day and taken to the Chatham County Detention Center.Officers at the jailhouse handcuffed him to a restraint chair, tasered, and left him to die.

Three people are facing a 10-year-jail term after a mentally ill Nigerian, Mathew Ajibade, was found dead inside a Georgia jail cell.

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Jason Paul Kenny, Maxine Evans and Gregory Brown, two former sheriff's deputies and a healthcare worker, have all been charged with involuntary manslaughter.

According to experts, the charge carried a potential sentence of up to ten years in jail.

The indictment said Kenny used excessive force when he tasered the restrained Ajibade, killing him while Evans and Brown, the healthcare worker at the Chatham County jail, failed to monitor Ajibade after the assault.

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Ajibade, a 22-year-old bipolar college student, was arrested on New Years Day and taken to the Chatham County Detention Center.

He had allegedly attacked his girlfriend and broke a police officer's nose during a bipolar episode.

Officers at the jailhouse handcuffed him to a restraint chair, tasered, and left him to die.

Later, he was found unresponsive and pronounced dead.

Chatham County coroner William Wessinger ruled Ajibade’s death a homicide caused by blunt force trauma, citing “abrasions, scrapes and bumps on [Ajibade’s] upper body and head.”

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Nine police officers had been fired following an investigation into Ajibade's death.

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