Sad news story, So crappy kid was so young he was from the part of town i grew up in.
A 14-year-old boy died at the Hamilton County Juvenile Detention Center on Monday after swallowing crack cocaine to conceal it from Cincinnati police.
Sedric Massey Jr. died shortly after he was booked into the Hamilton County Juvenile Detention Center at 2020 Auburn Ave. on a drug offense, according to Cincinnati police Lt. Mark Briede.
Massey, who was on probation for a November drug possession conviction, was taken into custody in District 3, which covers the west side, Briede said.
Massey was being booked on felony charges of trafficking in drugs near a school, two counts of assault on a police officer and a misdemeanor marijuana possession charge when he became ill, Hamilton County Juvenile Court Administrator Mark Reed said.
Reed said a video shows Massey entering the center at 11:26 p.m. The admission process takes about eight minutes and includes taking a suspect's name and address, fingerprinting and a search.
No drugs were found during the search, Reed said.
At that point, detention workers determine whether suspects will be released to their parents or held. The felony charges meant Massey would be admitted, Reed said.
At 11:35 p.m., while Massey waited in a holding room, he threw up a plastic bag, Reed said, citing a video.
A nurse was called, who in turn called for help from a second nurse, Reed said. In the meantime, Massey tried to re-swallow the bag, but detention workers grabbed it.
As workers began to clean up the mess, Massey collapsed while walking at 11:58 p.m., Reed said.
An emergency crew arrived nine minutes later and took Massey to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Reed said, where he was pronounced dead.
Massey's cause of death has not been determined, but Hamilton County Coroner Dr. O'dell Owens said the working diagnosis is cocaine overdose.
"There is some anatomical evidence that may be consistent with a drug overdose," he said.
But, Owens added, in a case like this, toxicology is always an important piece.
He is awaiting test results.
"Anything else now would be speculative," he said.
Diane Waller said Massey, her grandson, went to live for a while with his mother last year but returned last fall to live with her after he was arrested for selling drugs.
Waller has raised Massey since he was an infant.
Social workers told him he either had to return to his grandmother's North Fairmount home or go to jail, she said.
The teen's mother just got out of jail a few weeks ago, Waller said.
When Cincinnati homicide investigators knocked on Waller's door at 5 a.m. Monday, she said she thought her grandson was in trouble again.
She spent Monday morning waiting for more answers from police, who told that her only that her grandson son died after possibly swallowing crack cocaine. She wants to know why her grandson wasn't searched better, given his previous arrest for drugs.
"It seemed they would have looked back on his record," said Waller, 56. "They should have checked him. He shouldn't have been able to put anything in his mouth. And then it happened at midnight and you don't come tell me until 5 a.m.?
"I just don't understand it," she said.
Sounds like just another sad,sad story from the streets of the U.S......that boy was in the Life at prob.much younger than 14.....do you think he woudve made it to twenty?i dunno.....not that it matters but i assume he was African American....his Granma out working and him out hustling when he shoudve been at school.....just the cycle of poverty and the quick $ from drugs.......Davey
14 years old...........14.........ZG, that just stinks..........but a reminder how young these kids are..........makes me want to get sick.
