Keith Earl Elmore
Keith Earl Elmore, 52, of Gastonia, was held at the Gaston County Jail in North Carolina. The Sheriff's Office said jail staff found him unconscious in his cell on August 3, 2022. A later report gave his date of death as August 7 and said he was found in a booking cell with a sock wrapped around his neck. Jail records and the autopsy report list his death as a suicide, with the cause given as asphyxia due to ligature strangulation, and a state investigator was reported to have found no mistakes in how the death was handled.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The Sheriff's Office and the autopsy report say he died of asphyxia from ligature strangulation, ruled a suicide, and a state investigator found no mistakes in the handling of his death.
Reported by: Gaston County Jail staff and the Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him); autopsy report; state investigator.