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Eric Alphonzo Manley

54 years old · died January 20, 2026 · District of Columbia County, District of Columbia

Eric Alphonzo Manley died on January 20, 2026, at Washington Hospital Center while in the custody of the D.C. Department of Corrections. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner gave the cause of death as: Complications of Seizure Disorder due to Chronic Polysubstance Abuse. It ruled the manner of death natural.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. D.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner recorded the manner of death as natural.

Reported by: D.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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