No charges filed in death of Cuyahoga County inmate at MetroHealth Medical Center

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - The family of Tasha Grant, the Cuyahoga County inmate who died at MetroHealth Medical Center in 2025, learned Wednesday no criminal charges will be filed against any officers involved in her death.

“The family of Tasha Grant was disappointed to learn that the officers involved in her untimely death last year will not face criminal charges for their actions at MetroHealth Medical Center. The family will now focus its attention on the civil lawsuit we’ve filed in federal court,” said the attorneys for the Grant family.

On May 2, 2025, Grant was taken from the Cuyahoga County Jail to MetroHealth Medical Center to be treated for a preexisting condition, according to a spokesperson from the sheriff’s department.

“At issue is whether Ms. Grant’s constitutional rights were violated, whether accepted medical standards were breached and whether or not those failures caused or contributed to her unnecessary death,” said the attorneys for the Grant family.

Previously released body camera video showed Grant in the emergency room making several threats to MetroHealth Police Department officers.

In the video, Grant complained she wasn’t given her heart medication in the jail.

With one hand handcuffed to an emergency room bed, Grant initially told staff she did not want help and wanted to go back to jail.

Body camera shows staff calm Grant down, and they eventually took the handcuff off.

On May 5, 2025, Grant is still hospitalized and previously released body camera video showed several MetroHealth Police Department officers gloving up preparing to enter her room.

You can again hear Grant swearing at staff and making threats.

Officers also had a conversation with a medical staff member in the hallway.

They told officers Grant, a double amputee, threw herself out of the bed, onto the floor and tried to escape.

Officers questioned why Grant was no longer cuffed to the bed.

The medical staff explained they needed officers’ assistance to give Grant a shot to calm her down and get her back into bed.

As officers arrived in the room, Grant had sat up on the floor next to her bed.

Using her arms, Grant pulled herself up on the side of the bed and made a move towards officers.

At that point in the video, officers grab Grant’s hands, pull her half way on the bed, and restrain her as a staff member gives her a shot in the shoulder.

Screaming at officers to get off of her, Grant said, “I can’t breathe.”

In the course of just under two minutes, officers got Grant on the bed, handcuffed one hand to the rail and told her to roll over.

With officers help, she does roll over but repeats, “I can’t breathe.”

“We need to you to sit up,” one officer replied.

Grant then moved herself further up the bed, still repeating, “I can’t breathe.”

Now in the bed on her own, with no one restraining her, she told a nurse, “I can’t breathe.”

The nurse replied, “You’re breathing.”

Grant then asked the nurse, “Will you scoot me up?”

As staff cover her with a blanket, she can be heard saying in a bit of a sedated voice, “I can’t breathe,” five more times.

An officer locked the handcuffs and the video shuts off as staff appear to be leaving the room.

From the first contact with Grant on the floor, until staff leave, the incident lasted just under six minutes.

The next piece of video is roughly 12 minutes later when a nurse is frantically screaming and swearing as she’s trying to resuscitate Grant.

Grant did not survive.

“As we all witnessed from the video, Ms. Grant was treated inhumanely and was suffocated by MetroHealth police officers. She screamed for help 23 times while MetroHealth employees watched her slowly die but did not render aid. We will continue to fight for justice for Ms. Grant’s family,” said the attorneys for the Grant family.

MetroHealth Medical Center released the below statement: