Deaths in Custody
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Criss Edgar "Tra" Hollins III

22 years old · died June 3, 2017 · Lauderdale County Detention Center, Lauderdale County, Alabama

Criss Edgar "Tra" Hollins III was 22 years old, and his family in Florence, Alabama, had already lost a child before him: his sister Brooklyn was killed in 2012. On June 3, 2017, after a traffic stop in Florence, he was brought to the Lauderdale County Detention Center. Within about five minutes, a nurse said he needed to go to a hospital, and he died there before 4 a.m. The sheriff's office said it was investigating and an autopsy was pending, and his family gathered to remember him at visitation and services in Florence.

Cause of death, as reported: Cause not yet determined

Reported by: Lauderdale County Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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