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David Russell Tarver

61 years old · died May 6, 2022 · Wyoming Medium Correctional Institution, Goshen County, Wyoming

David Russell Tarver, 61, died on May 6, 2022, at the Wyoming Medium Correctional Institution in Torrington, where he had been held for more than a decade. The Wyoming Department of Corrections said in a news release that he died at the prison and that an autopsy would be performed under department policy to determine the cause of death. The department had not released a cause, and the manner of death remains pending.

Cause of death, as reported: Cause not yet determined

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

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