Detroit Lakes, Minn. (KDLM) – An inmate of the Otter Tail County jail needed to be rushed Lake Region Hospital in Fergus Falls following a suicide attempt.
According to an Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office news release, on June 13 at 6:33 p.m., a corrections officer noticed an inmate in medical distress following a routine wellbeing check.
The corrections officers immediately performed resuscitative measures to revive the inmate before EMS personnel arrived to the scene.
The inmate was transferred from Lake Region Hospital to a Fargo Hospital for continued treatment.
The incident remains under an active investigation.
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