Deaths in Custody
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Damien Reynolds

19 years old · died June 12, 2008 · Santa Rita Jail, Alameda County, California

Damien Reynolds, 19, of Livermore, died at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, California, on June 12, 2008. The Alameda County Sheriff's Office said he was found hanging from his bunk bed in his cell on a Thursday morning, while alone, and that he died by suicide two days before his scheduled release. Deputies alerted medical staff, and he was taken to ValleyCare Medical Center in Pleasanton, where he was pronounced dead. The sheriff's office's account of how he was being observed before he was found has not been independently verified in the reporting.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The Alameda County Sheriff's Office said he died by suicide by hanging in his cell.

Reported by: Alameda 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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