Jerome Hill
Jerome Hill, 36, told staff soon after he was held at the Chatham County Detention Center in Savannah that he wanted to kill himself, according to a Reuters report citing an internal affairs report. The report says that while a guard was taking him from his cell to a shower, he ran up the stairs and jumped from a walkway railing, landing head first. He died on April 25, 2017, 18 days later, in a coma at a hospital. A local report from October 2017 lists him among five men who died in Chatham County jail custody after Sheriff John Wilcher took office.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. Reuters, citing a department internal affairs report, says he jumped from a walkway railing after telling staff soon after he was jailed that he wanted to kill himself.
Reported by: Reuters report citing a department internal affairs report (reporters); Chatham County Detention Center internal affairs report (the agency that held him).