Joshua M. Jones
Joshua M. Jones died in the Roanoke City Jail in Roanoke, Virginia, on September 9, 2017. According to the Roanoke City Sheriff's Office, deputies found him unresponsive during security rounds, and he was pronounced dead at 10:37 p.m. The sheriff's office said he began taking steps to end his life between rounds and attributed his death to suicide by hanging. The office includes his death among the suicides at the jail since 2015, and the incident remains under investigation.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The Roanoke City Sheriff's Office says Joshua M. Jones died by suicide by hanging, taking steps to end his life between security rounds, and the incident remains under investigation.
Reported by: Roanoke City Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.