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Arthur B. Henderson

38 years old · died April 19, 2006 · Salt Lake County, Utah

Arthur B. Henderson, 38, was a former Lehi police officer. He was held at the Salt Lake County jail, where he died on April 19, 2006. The Salt Lake County Sheriff's department said he hanged himself in his cell with a torn bed sheet between security checks, and that efforts to revive him at the hospital were unsuccessful. The department said it had no reason to expect he would take his own life, and that a cell check about 45 minutes earlier had not raised concern.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The Salt Lake County Sheriff's department says he hanged himself with a torn bed sheet in his cell between security checks, and that a cell check about 45 minutes earlier raised no concern.

Reported by: Salt Lake County Sheriff's department (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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