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Joseph Gacha

42 years old · died December 30, 2019 · State Correctional Institution - Fayette, Fayette County, Pennsylvania

Joseph Gacha, 42, died on December 30, 2019, at SCI Fayette in Fayette County, in the custody of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. The death was reported to the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, which lists the manner of death as accident.

Cause of death, as reported: Died in an accident. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections recorded the manner of death as accident.

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

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