Andrew Urdiales
Andrew Urdiales, 54, a former Marine, died at San Quentin State Prison in California in early November 2018. He was found unresponsive in his single cell during a security check late on Friday, November 2, and was pronounced dead shortly after midnight. Corrections officials said his death was being investigated as a probable suicide, pending an autopsy, and that they had no indication it was connected to another death at the prison that weekend. Those accounts give no further detail about the circumstances of his death.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. Prison officials say the death appears to be a suicide, pending autopsy and investigation, and not connected to another death at the prison that weekend.
Reported by: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.
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