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Elmer Tanner

30 years old · died September 17, 2025 · Mack Alford Correctional Center, Atoka County, Oklahoma

Elmer Tanner died at Mack Alford Correctional Center on September 17, 2025, in the custody of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. Elmer Tanner was 30 years old. The department lists the manner of death as suicide.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. Oklahoma Department of Corrections recorded the manner of death as suicide.

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

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