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David Ehle

71 years old · died April 14, 2020 · Federal Correctional Institution Elkton, Columbiana County, Ohio

A 71-year-old man identified in news reports as David Ehle was held at Elkton Federal Correctional Institution in Lisbon, Ohio. The U.S. Bureau of Prisons said he died of COVID-19 with double pneumonia in April 2020 and that he had become infected at the prison. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was placed on a ventilator, and died about a week later. News reports gave his date of death as April 14, 2020.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness

Reported by: U.S. Bureau of Prisons (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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