Kirk Gunderson
Kirk Gunderson was 17 when he died on December 27, 2005, while held at the La Crosse County jail in Wisconsin. The source says he hanged himself with a bed sheet tied to a metal box around the cell's smoke detector. Before he died, he left a coded message on the cell floor expressing love for his family. According to prisonlegalnews.org, a later investigation found that the design flaw in that cell had not been fixed before another death occurred.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. Kirk Gunderson hanged himself with a bed sheet from a metal box around the cell's smoke detector, according to the jail's account summarized in the record.
Reported by: La Crosse County jail (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.