A Louisville family is asking for “truth,” “justice” and “accountability” after 23-year-old Ta’Neasha Chappell reportedly died in a hospital after being transported from Jackson County Jail on Friday.
Family members said that a detective told them about Chappell’s death and said she told jail officials that she was sick before an ambulance came. They tell WHAS11 News that officials did not provide much else in terms of information and that they received concerning phone calls from Ta’Neasha while she was in jail over the last two months but felt officials didn’t help her.
“I believe they neglected her,” said Ta’Neasha’s sister Ronesha Murrell. “They neglected her need, [and] protection. She spoke to me numerous times – phone calls, telling me they were going to kill her in there.”
Chappell’s father Donte added that he wants “to know what happened. My heart is broken.”
Ta’Neasha had been in jail since May when she reportedly stole from a store and started a car chase in Indiana with officers. The Jackson County Sheriff’s Department now says it has contacted Indiana State Police investigators to conduct an investigation into Chappell’s death. Investigators are awaiting her autopsy report and toxicology results.
“She may have been an inmate to y’all but she was loved,” Murrell said. “She was very loved.”
