Florida man drinks a cup of bleach after jury finds him guilty of armed robbery

Jermaine Bell was seen ingesting the bleach from a white disposable cup earlier than he was rushed out of the courtroom in Miami on a stretcher.
Miami-Dade County Corrections

A Florida man downed a cup of bleach in a courtroom moments after listening to the jury learn his verdict wherein he was discovered responsible of armed theft.

Jermaine Bell, 38, has spent greater than three years in custody for the December 2018 theft for which he was convicted. He pulled a gun on workers on the Millennium Engine Plating whereas he was disguised as a courier.

Bell was seen ingesting the bleach from a white disposable cup earlier than an officer approached him with a trash can and tried to have the inmate spit up the liquid. However Bell continued to drink from the cup till he ultimately sat down. 

He instantly grew to become very sick after ingesting the bleach and was transported out of the courtroom in Miami on a stretcher. He was then taken to the hospital for medical remedy.

Bell is in steady situation on the hospital after ingesting the bleach, but it surely stays unclear how he was in a position to get hold of it within the courtroom. Questions are additionally being raised by his household about why no one intervened as he was ingesting the product.

“I see him ingesting one thing that’s not proper,” Reverend Jerome Starling, a distant relative of Bell, advised Native 10. “His attorneys are letting him drink it. Corrections letting him drink it. Hastily I see him collapse. And I mentioned how might this occur.”

Starling mentioned there must be accountability for what occurred within the courtroom.

Bell’s cousin, who recorded the incident, mentioned she instantly tried to save lots of him.

“I used to be the one one like that jumped up and tried to get him assist,” she advised Native 10. “[It’s] very emotional for the entire household. We thought we had been going to lose Jermaine that day.”

The Miami-Dade County Corrections and Miami-Dade Police are investigating the incident.

Miami-Dade Police didn't reply to FOX Information Digital’s request for remark.