SAN ANTONIO — A week after authorities say a Bexar County jail inmate was killed while behind bars, the wife of another man who died in April while in custody is distraught and looking for answers.
Eric Green passed away April 18, when county officials say he was found unresponsive and didn’t respond to the effects of Narcan administered by a sheriff’s deputy at the facility.
Though the medical examiner has not yet determined a formal cause of death, the sheriff’s office believes Green was having a medical episode and experiencing withdrawals.
Demanding justice, Priscilla Green – speaking from the garden her husband had laid in just days before his death – believes her husband could’ve been saved. She buried him Friday, and said she wants to see change in the Bexar County jail.
“To this day, I don’t know exactly what happened.”
A friend of Eric’s only recently informed Priscilla of what he saw in the jail during her husband’s last moments.
“They knew he was throwing up, and no one did anything to help him.”
The Bexar County Sheriff’s office told KENS 5 previously that Eric had possibly suffered a medical episode and had possible withdrawal symptoms.
On Friday they said in a statement “in instances where an individual’s condition necessitates advanced medical intervention and such needs are identified by university health medical personnel, those individuals are immediately transferred to an area hospital to receive the level of care that exceeds the capabilities of the Bexar County jail.
A provision was put in place when the jail fell out of compliance with the Texas Commission of Jail Standards in November 2024, after 14 deaths in the facility.
They were back in compliance come December.
For Priscilla, a life like Eric’s might not have been perfect, but she believes he deserved to live.
“They should at least send him to the hospital,” she said. “He’s detoxing (and they’re) laughing at him. They need to take care of him, and they didn’t do that. They didn’t take care of him.”