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Brandon L. Fisher

32 years old · died July 25, 2020 · Hancock County Jail, Hancock County, Indiana

Brandon Fisher, 32, was held at the Hancock County Jail in Indiana. The sheriff's department said he was found unconscious and not breathing in his cell on July 9, 2020, after returning from a court appearance, and that he hanged himself with a piece of jail clothing. He was taken to Hancock Regional Hospital and then Eskenazi Hospital in Indianapolis, where he was kept on life support until he died on July 25, 2020. The Marion County coroner had not yet determined the cause and manner of death, and the sheriff's department's account of a suicide is the agency's claim, not a finding.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The Hancock County Sheriff's Department said Brandon Fisher hanged himself with a piece of jail clothing, while the Marion County coroner's office said the cause and manner of death were still pending.

Reported by: Hancock 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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