Jason Mosley
Not found on the Texas Attorney General’s published list of deaths in custody.
Jason Mosley died on May 16, 2015, while held at the Smith County Jail in Tyler, Texas, during booking. Reports say he was found alone and unresponsive in a holding cell at 2:57 a.m., apparently hanged from a divider, and was pronounced dead at a local hospital. The death is classed as a suicide in the accounts available. The county has agreed to pay his family $1.25 million, but the settlement was described as preliminary and not finalized.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The jail's account, as summarized, says he hanged himself from a divider in a holding cell, and the county has agreed to a preliminary $1.25 million settlement with his family.
Reported by: Smith County Jail (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.