Jerome Thompson
Jerome Thompson, 52, died on July 12, 2018, after jumping from the second floor of a general housing pod at the Mecklenburg County Jail in Charlotte, North Carolina, according to the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office. He had surgery for a skull fracture at a hospital and died in its intensive care unit. The sheriff's office said the death was a suicide and is investigating it, and the sheriff described it as the fourth death at the jail that year.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office says Jerome Thompson jumped from the second floor of a general housing pod and died after surgery for a skull fracture.
Reported by: Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.