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Kenneth D. McDonald

69 years old · died April 18, 2019 · Snake River Correctional Institution, Malheur County, Oregon

Kenneth D. McDonald, 69, died on April 18, 2019, in the infirmary at Snake River Correctional Institution in Ontario, Oregon, while receiving hospice care, the Oregon Department of Corrections said. The department said it classed the death as natural and did not name a specific cause. It said the Oregon State Police were notified, as with all in-custody deaths, and that his next of kin had been told.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Oregon Department of Corrections said he died in the prison infirmary while receiving hospice care, and it did not give a cause of death.

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

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