Deaths in Custody
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Kenneth William Beck III

19 years old · died February 25, 2012 · Glenn County Jail, Glenn County, California

Kenneth William Beck III, 19, of Shasta Lake, died on February 25, 2012, while held at the Glenn County Jail in Willows, California. According to the reporting, he was found unresponsive on the floor of a holding cell that Saturday morning, and paramedics and Willows firefighters were called, but efforts to save him failed and he was pronounced dead. Jail officials said he had been served breakfast and showed no medical issues at a 7:40 a.m. check, an account that the reporting does not independently verify. An autopsy was ordered, and the cause and manner of his death remained under investigation at the time of reporting.

Cause of death, as reported: Cause not yet determined

Reported by: Glenn County Jail officials (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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