Deaths in Custody
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John Klatt

50 years old · died January 2014 · Maricopa County Jail - Lower Buckeye Jail, Maricopa County, Arizona

John Klatt, 50, died in January 2014 at the Lower Buckeye Jail in Maricopa County, Arizona. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office said he was fatally beaten and stabbed with a small pencil by his cellmate, and that the two men had no known prior conflicts. The reporting gives no further account of his life or of how the death came about.

Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office says his cellmate fatally beat and stabbed him with a small pencil.

Reported by: Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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