Suspect in Lincoln baseball bat beating dies in jail
An inmate at the Lancaster County Department of Corrections has died after he was found unresponsive in his cell on Sunday.
By News Channel NebraskaLINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - An inmate at the Lancaster County Department of Corrections has died after he was found unresponsive in his cell on Sunday.
Correctional staff performed life-saving measures on 41-year-old Dale Kesselring until paramedics arrived. He had been incarcerated since Sept. 22.
Kesselring was arrested and put in jail for assault and use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony after Lincoln Police said he assaulted two people with a bat outside of a southwest Lincoln home.
Arriving officers saw Kesselring restrained on the ground by a neighbor and found a 44-year-old woman near the entrance of the home with multiple serious, but non-life-threatening, injuries.
LPD said the neighbor was also hit by Kesselring’s bat and had non-life-threatening injuries.
As is the case whenever an inmate dies in the custody of Lancaster County Department of Corrections, a grand jury will conduct an investigation.