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Kelly Gibbs

30 years old · died November 22, 2018 · Howard R. Young Correctional Institution, New Castle County, Delaware

Kelly Gibbs, 30, died on November 22, 2018, while held in Delaware state prison custody. The Delaware Department of Correction announced the death and said foul play was not suspected. The Appeal reported that he died by suicide by hanging in his single-person cell at the Howard R. Young Correctional Institution in Wilmington, and that he left a letter to his family. The Department's release named James T. Vaughn Correctional Center as the facility, and The Appeal named Howard R. Young; a judge later excluded one of his letters from a related court proceeding as unreliable.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. A news report says he died by suicide by hanging in his single-person cell, while the Delaware Department of Correction said foul play was not suspected but did not give a cause of death.

Reported by: news report on the death; Delaware Department of Correction (the agency that held him).

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