Deaths in Custody
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Justin Sirio

30 years old · died March 12, 2020 · Tom Bowles Detention Center, Maverick County, Texas

Justin Sirio, 30, died on March 12, 2020, while held at the Tom Bowles Detention Center in Eagle Pass, Texas, a jail in Maverick County. The Maverick County Sheriff's Office said he died by suicide by hanging in his cell, and jailers found him during evening rounds before he was taken to an emergency room, where he later died. The Texas Rangers were investigating the death, and the sheriff's office's account of how he was found and what happened in the hours before has not been independently verified. Sources report no information about his family or the people who knew him.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide

Reported by: Maverick County Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him); Texas Office of the Attorney General custodial death report.

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