![]() The DeKalb County Medical Examiner’s office said Ward died on the job when he succumbed to a preexisting heart condition.īut two videos obtained by Channel 2 tell a different story about the events of Ward’s last conscious hours. Most had never met Ward, but knew of the jail recruit who did not survive training. More than a year later his death, Channel 2 received numerous tips from DeKalb Sheriff’s Office insiders who were concerned about how Ward died. “George, please, I just need to know what happened.” “I just want to wake up after this nightmare,” Fredericks said. ![]() I said, ‘Okay you have my blessings.’”Īfter his second day on the job, Ward was dead. “Are you sure you want to do that?’” Fredericks recalled asking her son. Ward had been a corrections officer in St. ![]() Virgin Islands to be a jailer for the DeKalb County Sheriff’s office. Fredericks fussed over Ward, asking him if he was sure he wanted to leave his home in the U.S. ![]() ![]() Ward was living with a cousin while he prepared to move his children and fiancé to Georgia permanently. The last time Fredericks saw her 29-year-old son alive was on a trip to Atlanta in early May 2013. “I have lost faith and hope that I would ever get any answers to what happened to my son,” Lorraine Fredericks, Ward’s mother, told Channel 2. ![]()
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