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Elid Gueits

24 years old · died January 1, 2019 · State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania

Elid Gueits, 24, died at SCI Camp Hill in Pennsylvania on January 1, 2019. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections said an officer doing rounds found him hanging from the top bunk of his cell by a bed sheet in the early hours of New Year's Day. He was pronounced dead at 12:40 a.m. A York Daily Record report from June 2019 described his death as a suicide, while the Cumberland County Coroner's office was to determine the official cause.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide

Reported by: Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (the agency that held him); Cumberland County Coroner's office (medical examiner or coroner).

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