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Jerome Lyles

62 years old · died December 22, 2021 · Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

Jerome Lyles, 62, died on December 22, 2021, in a jail in Philadelphia County, in the custody of the Philadelphia Department of Prisons. The death was reported to the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, which lists the manner of death as natural causes.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. Philadelphia Department of Prisons recorded the manner of death as natural.

Reported by: Philadelphia Department of Prisons (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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