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Carroll Ray Fender

died August 6, 2017 · Colquitt County Jail, Colquitt County, Georgia

Carroll Ray Fender was held at the Colquitt County Jail in Moultrie, Georgia, when he was found unresponsive in his cell in early August 2017. He was taken to Colquitt Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. The Colquitt County Sheriff's Office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said he died by hanging with a bedsheet, and preliminary autopsy results also attribute the death to hanging. Toxicology results were still incomplete when the report was published.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide

Reported by: Colquitt County Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him); Georgia Bureau of Investigation (outside investigators).

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