Enrique Pina
Enrique Pina, 72, of Walnut Creek, was a former groundskeeper at Palmer School near Walnut Creek. He was held at the West County Detention Facility in Richmond, California, where he died on October 16, 2019. Sheriff's officials said a deputy found him hanging from a bedsheet tied to his bunk and called the death an apparent suicide, though the manner of death is listed as pending in a second account. The sheriff's office said he had a terminal illness and had been cleared by a mental health clinician in September to stay in his housing module. The sheriff's office said the in-custody death protocol was invoked and that the district attorney and sheriff are investigating the death.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. Sheriff's officials say he was found hanging from a bedsheet tied to his bunk and that the death was an apparent suicide, while the sheriff's office says the death is still under investigation by the district attorney and sheriff.
Reported by: Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.