Ten people connected to the death of a 28-year-old Black man during the intake process at a Virginia mental health facility last week have been charged with second-degree murder. His family wants answers as to how a promising musician having what they called a mental health crisis ended with him dying – and why no one stood up for him and kept him from being killed. The county prosecutor says law enforcement deputies “smothered him to death” while restraining him. Hospital workers have also been charged. The local law enforcement officers’ union says they “stand behind” the deputies while an attorney for one of the deputies charged said he looked forward to the full truth being shared in court. Here’s what we know about the deadly incident. Who was Irvo Otieno? Irvo (pronounced EYE-voh) Otieno was 28. He had a passion for music, family attorney Mark Krudys said Thursday, and was working to become a hip-hop artist. Originally from Kenya, he came to the US when he was 4. His mother, Caroline Ouko, said he had “found his thing” with music and could write a song in less than five minutes. “He put his energy in that and he was happy with it,” she said at a news conference Thursday. Irvo had a big heart, she said, and was the one his classmates came to when they had problems. He was a leader who brought his own perspective to the table, she added. “If there was discussion, he was not afraid to go the other way when everybody else was following,” she said. Her son had a mental illness that necessitated medicine, Ouko said. He had long stretches where “(you) wouldn’t even know something was wrong” and then there were times when “he would go into some kind of distress and then you know he needs to see a doctor,” she said. What happened earlier this month? On March 3, Otieno was arrested by Henrico County police who were responding to a report of a possible burglary, according to a police news release. The officers, accompanied by members of the county’s crisis intervention team, placed him under an emergency custody order. The officers transported him to a hospital where authorities say he assaulted three officers. Police took him to county jail and he was booked. On March 6, Otieno was taken to a state mental health facility in Dinwiddie County and died during the intake process, according to Commonwealth’s Attorney Ann Cabell Baskervill. “They smothered him to death,” the prosecutor said. A preliminary report from the Office of Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond identifies asphyxiation as a cause of death, the commonwealth attorney’s office said in a statement. Otieno was held on the ground in handcuffs and leg irons for 12 minutes by seven deputies, Baskervill said. Full story: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/17/us/irvo-otieno-death-what-we-know/index.html Subscribe to WRAL: https://youtube.com/c/wral5 Follow WRAL: Facebook: https://facebook.com/WRALTV Twitter: https://twitter.com/WRAL IG: https://instagram.com/wral About WRAL-TV: WRAL is your Raleigh, North Carolina news source. Check out our videos for the latest news in Raleigh, local sports, Raleigh weather, and more at https://WRAL.com #localnews #northcarolina