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Wyatt job seeker fatally stricken after workout
01:00 AM EDT on Monday, April 21, 2008
A 30-year-old East Providence man applying for a job as correctional officer at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility, in Central Falls, was fatally stricken Saturday after taking an agility test.
Jamal E. Jackson, 30, of 10 McCausland Ave., East Providence, was one of about 20 recruits taking the test at a track near the privately run jail, Wyatt spokesman Dante Bellini Jr. said.
Jackson had successfully completed the sit-and-reach, push-ups, sit-ups and a 1.5-mile run. Cooling down after the run, he reported feeling dizzy, and two staff members walked beside him. While conversing with them, he collapsed.
A Central Falls rescue vehicle arrived and took Jackson to Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, in Pawtucket, where he was pronounced dead at 11:30 a.m.
An autopsy is scheduled for today, said Andrea Beardsworth, a spokeswoman for the state medical examiner’s office.
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