Floyd Berry Obituary What Was The Cause Of His Death?

May 2024 · 3 minute read

Floyd Berry’s obituary was shared by his family.

The funeral services are reported to be held at Mission Park Funeral Chapels North 3401 Cherry Ridge Drive, San Antonio, TX, between 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Escude Funeral Home of Simmesport provides the funeral services. 

Floyd Berry Jr., a native of Pineville, Louisiana, was born on August 12, 1970, to Claudette and Floyd Berry Sr. His religious journey started when the late Rev. Alvin Courtney baptized him at the Greater New Bethel Baptist Church. 

Berry graduated from Simmesport High School and attended the Southern University of New Orleans and Tulane University. At Tulane University, Berry was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army.

After his studies, Berry moved to San Antonio, Texas, where he lived for many years. While there, he served as a law enforcement officer before transitioning to a Quality Control Supervisor position at Ground Effects, LTD of Toyota.

His passing is a significant loss to his loved ones, and he will be missed dearly.

What was Floyd Berry accused of?

A case against a former Bexar County deputy has been dismissed after he died while waiting for his trial to begin. 

According to personnel records, Floyd Berry was set to go on trial soon, having been arrested and accused in 2019 of conducting illegal strip searches. 

He was accused of conducting the searches on at least six women who came forward in 2019. Sheriff Javier Salazar said there could have been more victims at the time. 

Authorities at the time said Berry would pull women over at the Shell gas station at 1604 and Highway 281 and take them into custody before driving down the road, pulling over, and instructing the women to expose themselves.  

In 2010, he was suspended for asking a female deputy to film him strip-searching a male inmate. 

According to the suspension in 2010, Berry was questioned by a lieutenant nearly a week after the incident. During questioning, Berry told the lieutenant he “didn’t believe there was anything wrong with having a female present during the strip search of a male,” the suspension states. 

According to the documents, Berry told the lieutenant he and the deputy “stood in front of the inmate blocking the (female deputy’s) view of the inmate’s genitals.” 

The female deputy initially wrote in her report that, per Berry’s instruction, the inmate was filmed during the strip search from the shoulders up. Berry, the records note, allegedly told the female deputy to remove any mention of the incident in her report because he would document the incident himself. 

Berry, however, never included that the inmate was recorded, let alone strip-searched, the suspension documents state.

The case was dismissed on Tuesday due to Berry passing away. The cause of his death hasn’t been determined.

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