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Elioenaid Rivera

20 years old · died November 22, 2017 · Shasta County Jail, Shasta County, California

Elioenaid Rivera, 20, was found dead in his cell at the Shasta County Jail shortly after midnight on November 22, 2017, during a bed check. Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko said he appeared to have hanged himself, possibly with bed sheets. The coroner had not announced a cause of death and said an autopsy report could take up to 90 days.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko said Rivera appeared to have hanged himself, possibly with bed sheets, while the coroner has not yet announced a cause of death.

Reported by: Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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