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Carmelo Ocasio III

22 years old · died September 18, 2022 · Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

Carmelo Ocasio III, 22, died on September 18, 2022, in a jail in Philadelphia County, in the custody of the Philadelphia Department of Prisons. The death was reported to the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, which lists the manner of death as accident.

Cause of death, as reported: Died in an accident. Philadelphia Department of Prisons recorded the manner of death as accident.

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

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