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Justus Smiley

died September 3, 2022 · Northwest Florida Reception Center, Florida

Justus Smiley died on September 3, 2022, while held in the custody of the Florida Department of Corrections at Northwest Florida Reception Center Main Unit, a state prison. The department has recorded the manner of death as suicide, and that classification is the department's own claim.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The Florida Department of Corrections recorded the death as a suicide.

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

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