Jesse Ray Beaman
Jesse Ray Beaman, 32, died at the Hernando County Detention Center in Brooksville, Florida, on the night of April 1, 2013. His mother, Penny Beaman, said he was a good kid who had moved to the county about six months earlier to be near his 9-year-old son, and she believed he may have had untreated bipolar disorder. The Hernando County Sheriff's Office said the death was an apparent suicide and that it was investigating the death and whether the jail followed proper procedure. The sheriff's office did not say how he died.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The Hernando County Sheriff's Office reported an apparent suicide but declined to say how he died, and said deputies were investigating whether the jail followed proper procedure.
Reported by: Hernando County Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.