Scroll down to see video, family to speak at press conference tonight at 6 p.m.

DINWIDDIE, Va. – Ten people have been indicted by a grand jury for the death of Irvo Otieno on the same day the video of his death was released.

According to NBC 12, seven Henrico County deputies and three employees of Central State Hospital face second-degree murder charges in connection to his death.

Otieno’s family, attorneys and officials from the Henrico County Sheriff’s Office will hold a press conference tonight at 6, which will be livestreamed on WSLS.com and our social platforms.

[VIDEO: Footage shows moments before Irvo Otiendo’s death]

A large group of sheriff’s deputies and employees of a Virginia mental hospital pinned patient Otieno to the ground until he was motionless and limp, then began unsuccessful resuscitation efforts, newly obtained surveillance video shows.

The footage, which has no audio, shows various members of the group struggling with a handcuffed and shackled Otieno over the course of about 20 minutes after he’s led into a room at Central State Hospital, where was going to be admitted March 6. For most of that duration, Otieno is on the floor being restrained by a fluctuating group that at one point appeared to reach 10 people pressing down on various parts of his body.

The death of the 28-year-old Black man has led to second-degree murder charges against seven deputies and three hospital workers and an outcry from his family, who has said he was brutally...

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