{"id":1265857,"date":"2023-10-08T18:45:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T23:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1265857"},"modified":"2023-10-11T08:25:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T13:25:16","slug":"anderson-county-jail-death-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1265857","title":{"rendered":"Anderson County Jail death under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1265858\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/AndersonCountyJail-175x153.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/AndersonCountyJail-175x153.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/AndersonCountyJail-200x175.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/AndersonCountyJail-401x350.jpg 401w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/AndersonCountyJail.jpg 494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>ANDERSON COUNTY &#8212; The Anderson County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office said that a man died in the Anderson County Jail on Saturday. According to our news partner KETK, Rodney Lynn McKenzie, 47, was arrested by Frankston Police just before midnight on Thursday, October 5 on two outstanding traffic warrants issued by Anderson County Justice Court, Precinct 2. McKenzie was taken to Anderson County Jail and reportedly screened by medical staff before being booked. From 1:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Friday Oct. 6 he was held in the booking area before he was moved into a cell. Around 6 a.m. and again at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday morning jail staff reportedly saw McKenzie moving in the cell. At 10:05 a.m. inmates notified the control operator by intercom that McKenzie was reportedly in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153medical distress\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, according to the sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Jail staff and medical personnel arrived at the cell and McKenzie was not alert or responsive but his vital signs were reportedly still detectable. McKenzie was taken to Palestine Regional Medical Center where he passed away at 10:57 a.m. while being treated in their emergency room, according to a press release.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Rangers have been notified about McKenzie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death and are conducting an investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANDERSON COUNTY &#8212; The Anderson County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office said that a man died in the Anderson County Jail on Saturday. According to our news partner KETK, Rodney Lynn McKenzie, 47, was arrested by Frankston Police just before midnight on Thursday, October 5 on two outstanding traffic warrants issued by Anderson County Justice Court, Precinct 2. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1265857\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anderson County Jail death under investigation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1265860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/AndersonCountyJail-175x153.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Anderson County Jail death under investigation","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 10:38:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/AndersonCountyJail-175x153.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Anderson County Jail death under investigation","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1265857"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1265921,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265857\/revisions\/1265921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1265860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1265857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1265857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1265857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}