Altercation with St. Mary Corwin hospital security now a homicide investigation
PUEBLO CO May 10 2021
An altercation between security officers and a man at St. Mary Corwin hospital has now been classified as a homicide.
While not revealing may details, police said that they had responded to the hospital on Feb. 10, 2021 regarding a disturbance.
When officers arrived, they found medical staff rendering aid to 36-year-old Mathew Haskel Jones.
Police said Jones had been involved in a physical altercation with hospital security staff before they got there.
Jones was transported to a hospital in Colorado Springs on the date of the incident and then died at that hospital on February 18, 2021.
Pueblo Police began investigating the incident as a suspicious death but following an autopsy, it was determined that the cause of Jones’s death was homicide.
Police did not say if Jones was a visitor or a patient or what caused the altercation.
The Pueblo Police Department is now investigating this incident as a homicide, and the investigation is active and ongoing.
The case may be presented to a grand jury if there is evidence of a crime.
