Deaths in Custody
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Aaron Young

30 years old · died September 21, 2023 · Saline County Jail, Saline County, Kansas

Aaron Young, 30, died on September 21, 2023, while he was held at the Saline County Jail in Kansas. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan said corrections officers found him alone in his cell, hanging, on a Thursday afternoon, and that he was pronounced dead shortly after medical care began. The sheriff's office has described the death as a suicide, and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation is investigating it as a probable suicide. That investigation is ongoing.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. Sheriff Roger Soldan says officers found him alone in his cell hanging and unresponsive, and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation is investigating the death as a probable suicide.

Reported by: Saline County Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him); Kansas Bureau of Investigation (outside investigators).

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