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Chancey Lee Baker

37 years old · died September 24, 2019 · Idaho State Correctional Institution, Idaho

Chancey Lee Baker, 37, of Homedale, died at the Idaho State Correctional Institution. Staff found him hanging on the night of Tuesday, September 24, 2019. The death is being investigated as an apparent suicide. A KTVB report published September 30, 2019 described it as the first of two suicides at Idaho Department of Correction prisons in less than a week.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide

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

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