A Thurston County Jail inmate was arrested after he allegedly assaulted his cellmate and choked him unconscious.
According to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office, inmate Zachery Anthony Wilson was arrested on Nov. 24 after a reported altercation between two inmates.
Wilson’s cellmate told a corrections deputy that the suspect had been acting erratically, talking as though there was another person in the corner of the room, saying things such as “They're gonna cut my dick off” and "They're gonna drop me in boiling water.”
The cellmate said Wilson claimed that there was a woman outside their room and that they had to “fight to the death.”
When he told Wilson to lie down because there was nobody outside, the cellmate said, the suspect allegedly struck him in the head and knocked him to the ground.
The cellmate managed to hit the intercom button to call for help, according to the report.
Another corrections deputy said that upon separating the two inmates, Wilson’s cellmate “flopped from his side to his back, where he lay motionless, staring blankly at the ceiling.”
Wilson repeatedly said that he had “never killed anybody before now,” deputies stated.
The cellmate was initially unresponsive but later stood back up. Deputies noted “several injuries” on his head as well as some drops of blood on the wall and on the floor.
The cellmate was taken to an emergency room because he did not know the day of the week, the date, and thought that he was still in 2020. He later received medical clearance.
Wilson admitted to striking and strangling his cellmate, saying, “He was going to push me out, you know? Well, actually, he didn’t do anything. He just stood there and I kind of took off on him.”
The suspect said he needed to be put in isolation because he could not stop himself from assaulting other people. He also told authorities that he had mental health issues but did not specify his condition.
Wilson was booked at the Thurston County Jail for first-degree attempted murder. The suspect was originally booked into the jail for attempted residential burglary.
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Miabrooks
Zach had a $1000.00 from his paycheck on his card in his wallet.
He was in the middle of intervention but was able to walk away rather be transported to a hospital and stabilized then put back on the medication that he was taken off of by a P.A. who hardly knew him.
This particular medication can cause schizophrenia to become worse if not monitored properly. This P.A did not of that and a complaint is being addressed however, HB1310 prevented the succesful routine care plan to get my son back on the hospital, stabilized and back home and work.
Prior to being arrested, while on medication, he was successfully working, up for a promotion and pay raise. He was helping to support his son at St Martins. Got his driver's license. Just bought a car. He was taking care of handyman work for his widowed grandmother at home and neighbors. He was living with her and his cousin, who is military reserve and attending St Martins. Zach was diagnosed with schizophrenia but stabilized and engaged.
While being arrested was also in a crisis intervention in Lewis county but was allowed to walk away. Since HB1310 he has lost his lifetime with law enforcement. Even with ITA holds law enforcement were forced to let him go on two occasions since July 25, 2021.
We have never had to let him go or risk him escalating like this prior to this ridiculous Bill. We have never had a incident like what is described at the jail. He would always cooperate with law enforcement even though he never wanted to go to the hospital he would. Law enforcement always commented how cooperative he was. They could see when he needed help and wed all get together and help him. They were always good to us, especially him and he'd always cooperate. We had a threshold everyone was accustomed to and it worked. We never saw escalation like that ever. Never let it get passed a certain point. We didnt have too and should have never had to. Had he been taken in his meds would have been monitored too. This was ALL preventable.
When he was arrested he sat in Thurston county jail for 2 months before ever being stabilized with medication.
Arrested, untreated and isolated for mental illness. For being sick. I blame HB1310 and any other Bills linked, and Legislation, for preventing law enforcement help with mental illness and for holding my son accountable for what legislation has created. For inhumane treatment and what could be crimes against humanity.
You dont lock someone up for being sick or for what is created by preventable treatment.
He is unmonitored and sick. Now he sleeps on the floor of a cell next to the toilet, urine on the floor, with 3 men in a cell. Ventilation is not adequate and it is a Covid dorm. He has Covid. I recently spoke with him, he was chained to the phone and fainted. I could here the dangling phone knocking around and he was out. I got on my landline and called the jail while staying on the phone with him. I spoke to a deputy and asked that someone get in there and help him. It was after this he placed on the floor to sleep, with Covid, with 3 in a cell and he sleeps on the floor next to the toilet.
Fainting has to do with the brain. It is unsure whether he is having a reaction to his medication or this has to do with Covid.
Monitoring his medication is the difference between life and death,
especially this medication he is on.
Had he been taken to the hospital prior not of this would have ever happened. He would have been stabilized, back to work and home for Christmas... less people in jail and no one else would have been taken to the hospital.
I think not only is it a injustice and atrocity to people with mental health illness and issues to take their lifeline away, it is also so disheartening to say that those we have known in law enforcement have no compassion or heart. I believe this was a racial agenda. They did this deliberately and knowingly, at the expense of the most helpless, mental health patients. I dont believe the agenda is because of humanitarian and moral convictions. I believe the agenda of HBill1310 is not and never was to help those with mental illness but to defame, defund and eradicate the police because look! Since July 25, 2021 and now my son is facing 3 to 22 years! There have been countless people untreated with mental health harmed! What have you done! 1 in 4 people have or know someone with mental illness. Something like that anyways...
This HB1310 is a horror and the outcome even worse.
This HB1310, in my opinion, has created Crimes against humanity, people shouldn't be denied medical and mental care. Legislature needs to take responsibility for creating what could have been prevented. The conditions my son is living on and the length of time is is taking to resolve this, keeping him jailed up and sick, untreated is inhumane. He's not the only one.
I'm 2009 ACLU, warned Thurston county about the conditions of over crowding and now HB1310.
Jails are not set up to monitor mental health on this capacity. Jails are turning into mental health facilities and they were never meant for that. What we had was working!
Law enforcement has been our lifelines, along with the rest of the care teams and mental health illness has no prejudice or color...
I want my sons progesses and success, his life back. I want his whole care team back, including law enforcement...
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Miabrooks
This was a isolated incident.
Zach is in population and has 2 cellmates and is stabilized there have been no other incidents. Prior to covid he was in general population or a unit were everyone roamed freely.
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Miabrooks
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In the cause of all who are appointed to die.
Open your mouth, judge righteously,
And plead the cause of the poor and needy.
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Miabrooks
I've read Julia Ornedo articles. She seems to target people with mental health illness. You'd think this was illegal, definitely unethical. She is defined as "a liner" and not a true journalist.
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I've read her articles. She seems to target people with mental health You'd think this was illegal definitely unethical. She is defined as "a liner" and not a true journalist.
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