Justin Alan Helzer
Justin Alan Helzer, 41, died at San Quentin State Prison, where he was held. A corrections officer found him hanging in his single cell at about 10:17 p.m. on April 14, 2013, during a security check, and prison Lt. Sam Robinson said he died by suicide with a sheet tied to the cell bars. Prison officials said he had attempted suicide three years earlier and had been under closer watch since then, but that he showed no recent signs of risk. That assessment of his risk is the prison's own account and is not independently described in the reporting.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide
Reported by: San Quentin State Prison Lt. Sam Robinson (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.