Two men have died while in custody over the past three days in northwest Missouri.

The Missouri Department of Corrections said Monday that 52-year-old Brian Schultz died Saturday at 4:50 a.m. the Crossroads correctional Center in Cameron of apparent natural causes. Schultz was serving a 20-year sentence for first-degree robbery from Jackson County. He was received in the Missouri Department of Corrections in July of 2010.

A second death occurred after an inmate in the Daviess Dekalb County Regional Jail notified staff of a medical issue.

According to the LCSO Jerry D. Wells, 53, Texas has been in custody since July 28, 2015 on a Livingston County felony warrant for alleged class D felony Non-Support, Total Arrears in Excess of 12 Monthly Payments Due Under Order of Support 568.040 RSMo. Bond was set at $15,000 cash. Wells was originally arrested in Texas and subsequently extradited to Missouri by U.S. Prisoner Transport and booked into DDCRJ on August 09, 2015.

The department said that at around 12:30 a.m. Monday Wells notified DDCRJ staff of a medical issue. The department said DDCRJ followed medical protocols and were directed to call an ambulance and did so. The Emergency Responders and Ambulance arrived approximately 7 minutes later and transported Wells to Cameron Regional Hospital for treatment and was pronounced deceased by the Coroner approximately 4:10 a.m. today. An autopsy has been requested.