Died in jail or a lockup
Delbert Lloyd Phillips
Delbert Lloyd Phillips, 53, died in custody at the Pittsburg County Jail in McAlester, Oklahoma, on March 12, 2019. According to a jail incident report, a detention officer found him hanging from a top bunk in his cell at about 5:30 a.m., and emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene. The jail's report lists the death as a suicide.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide
Reported by: Pittsburg County Jail incident report (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.