Byron G. Goodrich
Byron Goodrich, 30, of Zanesville, was held at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio. The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction said he attempted suicide there on a Sunday in April 2018 and was taken to the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus. The department said he was declared brain dead the following Monday and was removed from life support on Wednesday, April 18, and that his organs were donated.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. Ohio's Department of Rehabilitation and Correction said he attempted suicide by hanging at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility and was declared brain dead.
Reported by: Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, spokeswoman JoEllen Smith (the agency that held him); State prisons officials (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.