Chatham County Sheriff's Office supervisors Jason Kenny, left, and Maxine Evans were fired after they were suspended following Matthew Ajibade's death.
Paul Folsome was one of nine deputies fired Friday.
Savannah-Chatham County police, shown patrolling the downtown historic district in Savannah, Ga., in 2006, arrested Matthew Ajibade on New Year’s Day.
Abram Burns was one of nine deputies fired Friday.
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Nine Georgia sheriff's deputies were fired over the death of a 22-year-old college student who was placed in restraints in police custody, officials said Friday.
Chatham County Sheriff Al. St. Lawrence said the firings followed an internal investigation and a separate probe by the Georgia Bureau of Investigations into the New Year’s Day death of Matthew Ajibade.
Ajibade was arrested on domestic violence charges Jan. 1 after Savannah-Chatham police found his girlfriend with a bruised face and broken nose while responding to a domestic disturbance call, police said.
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His girlfriend handed police a bottle of Ajibade’s prescription medication for bipolar disorder before he was carted off, Ajibade’s family said.
During booking, Ajibade allegedly began fighting with deputies and injured three of them, the sheriff's office said. One reportedly had a concussion and broken nose.
Ajibade was placed in a restraining chair in an isolation cell, where he was later found unresponsive, officials said. The results of his autopsy have not been released because a prosecutor is weighing whether to file criminal charges, officials said.
While the cause of Ajibade's death has not been made public, the sheriff's office released a Feb. 9 memo instructing deputies never to use stun guns on detainees in restraints.
The sheriff's office noted that it instituted new policies to check on the use of stun guns in jail and notify medical staff immediately when a detainee requiring medication arrives.
Supervisors Cpl. Maxine Evans and Cpl. Jason Kenny were suspended after the death and fired Friday.
The other fired deputies include: Pvt. Eric Vinson, Pvt. Abram Burns, Pvt. Christopher Reed, Pvt. Burt Ambrose, Pvt. Paul Folsome, Pvt. Frederick Burke and Pvt. Andrew Evans-Martinez.
"The fact that nine people were fired tells us how terrible this incident was," Will Claiborne, an attorney for Ajibade's family, said in a statement. "But the family still has no answers about what happened to Matthew."
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