LAWTON – The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is working with Comanche County Detention Center officials and the District 5 district attorney’s office to investigate the Aug. 27 death of a CCDC inmate.
The inmate, identified as Terry Dorrell, had been in custody for 14 days, CCDC Administrator David Weber said in an Aug. 30 email to a Southwest Ledger reporter. Dorrell was in jail on an application to revoke his suspended sentence on two counts of second-degree burglary, larceny of a motor vehicle and injuring or burning a public building.
A warrant for Dorrell’s arrest was issued Sept. 27, 2023, and the warrant was served on him Aug. 16 of this year, according to online court records.
County officials asked the OSBI to investigate Dorrell’s death, said the agency’s public information manager, Hunter McKee.
“The individual was transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for identification and to determine a cause and manner of death,” McKee said in an email. “This is still an ongoing investigation at this time.”