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Brandy Brents

48 years old · died February 3, 2021 · Arizona State Prison Complex-Tucson, Pima County, Arizona

Brandy Brents, 48, was held at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Tucson. The Arizona Department of Corrections said staff found him unresponsive, that staff and responding medics performed CPR, and that he was pronounced dead on February 3, 2021. The department said his death was an apparent act of self-harm by hanging.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The Arizona Department of Corrections says Brandy Brents died of an apparent act of self-harm by hanging.

Reported by: Arizona Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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