Died in juvenile detentionUnder 18
Jordan Bachman
Jordan Bachman was a teenager from Colorado whose mother, Patricia Bachman, describes him as fun, energetic and kind, a young man who wanted to be a songwriter. According to her, he was on a cross-country trip to Tennessee when he was stopped and held at the Ware Youth Center in Coushatta, Louisiana, where he died by suicide. His family says he would have wanted the truth to come out, and the death is part of a state investigation into abuse and a rise in suicide attempts at the facility.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The record describes the death as a suicide inside Ware Youth Center, but it names no source for that account.