Cheryl Sweeney
Cheryl Sweeney, 51, died on May 30, 2012, after she was found hanging in her cell at the Elyria City Jail in Lorain County, Ohio, according to jail administrator Capt. Jack Hammond. Hammond said she had been checked about 12 minutes before she was found, was not on suicide watch, and had tied a bedsheet to a window bar, working around caulking that filled the space. Paramedics took her to a hospital in Elyria, and she was later transferred to MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, where she died. The jail said it was considering changes to the window framing in about 16 cells.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. Lorain County Jail Administrator Capt. Jack Hammond says she hanged herself with a bedsheet in her cell after being checked about 12 minutes earlier and was not on suicide watch.
Reported by: Lorain County Jail Administrator Capt. Jack Hammond (the agency that held her). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held her.