Donald Walter
Donald Walter, 30, died at the Lawrence County jail in Pennsylvania in early April 2024. According to New Castle News, the county district attorney's detective unit has charged five people in connection with his death: one person currently held at the jail and four people formerly held there. The newspaper reports his death as a drug overdose, and several other people held at the jail also overdosed or tested positive for fentanyl or cocaine and were treated at a hospital. The Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency's death-in-custody reporting lists the manner of death as accident.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of an overdose. The county district attorney's detective unit filed charges including drug delivery resulting in death, and a state reporting record lists the manner as accident, while the prison reported the death as an accident.
Reported by: county district attorney's detective unit; Lawrence County Prison (the agency that held him).