A 31-year-old Toledo woman died in her cell at the Lucas County Corrections Center on Monday morning, at about the hour she was due to appear in court, the Lucas County Sheriff’s Office said in a release issued Monday, November 9.
Gabrielle Magsig was found unresponsive in her cell at about 9:05 a.m. Monday, the sheriff’s office said. Officers tried to revive her until jail nurses took over, and Toledo firefighters reached her unit at 9:16 a.m., the sheriff’s office said. Paramedics pronounced her dead at 9:54 a.m. 13abc in Toledo also reported Magsig’s death at the jail on Monday.
Magsig had been due in a Toledo Municipal Court courtroom at 9 a.m. Monday, according to The Lake Erie Inquiry, which reviewed the sheriff’s office release and Toledo Municipal Court records. Toledo police had picked her up Friday evening on a warrant for possessing drug paraphernalia, a fourth-degree misdemeanor that carries at most 30 days in jail, The Lake Erie Inquiry reported.
She had been booked into the corrections center on November 6, three days before she died, according to Lucas County Corrections Center booking records cited by The Lake Erie Inquiry. The judge’s entry for Monday’s hearing begins, “Defendant ill,” and her case was continued to Tuesday, The Lake Erie Inquiry reported from the court docket.
The sheriff’s office said no more information was available while its investigation and the coroner’s report are pending. No cause of death has been released.
Ohio’s jail rules require staff to look in on every inmate in person at least once an hour and to write each check down, and the state’s 2025 inspection of the jail found it met that standard, The Lake Erie Inquiry reported, citing the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction’s annual jail inspection and Ohio Administrative Code 5120:1-8-03.
What happens next turns on the two reviews the sheriff’s office named: its own investigation into the death and the Lucas County coroner’s report. NewsForce247 will update this story when the coroner releases a cause of death or the sheriff’s office releases further findings.