DINWIDDIE COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) – Dinwiddie County prosecutors will continue calling witnesses Tuesday as they make their case in the first criminal trial tied to the in-custody death of Irvo Otieno, a 28-year-old Black man who died at a state-run psychiatric hospital last year during a mental health crisis. Dinwiddie Commonwealth’s Attorney Amanda Mann and her team called eight witnesses on Monday for the first day of the trial of Wavie Jones, a former Central State Hospital worker who is facing involuntary manslaughter in Otieno’s death. During opening statements, county prosecutors said their argument in the trial would be that Jones’s actions were negligent the day Otieno died. “A mental health crisis shouldn’t be a death sentence,” Mann said in her opening statement Monday. In its opening statement, Jones’s legal team told the jury they would argue that Otieno died of a sudden cardiac death. Jones’s attorney called Otieno’s death an unexpected and unpredicted “tragedy” but said Jones was not responsible and acted to help. Otieno died March 6, 2023, while in the custody of Henrico County sheriff’s deputies at Virginia’s Central State Hospital in Dinwiddie County. Otieno struggled with mental health illness and his family said he was experiencing an emergency and needed care he never received. Video released after his death shows sheriff’s deputies and hospital staff trying to restrain a shackled Otieno and holding him down on the floor of an admissions room at Central State Hospital until he was motionless. The video shows resuscitation attempts were unsuccessful. Seven sheriff’s deputies and three hospital orderlies were initially indicted on second-degree murder charges but now only three men face downgraded charges of involuntary manslaughter. Stay with 8News for updates.