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Leo Angel Luna

died March 6, 2010 · Connally Prison, Karnes County, Texas

Leo Angel Luna died on March 6, 2010, while held at the Connally Unit, a Texas state prison in Karnes County. Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman Michelle Lyons said officials found him hanging in his cell early on a Saturday, with a bed sheet attached to the cell door, and that he was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital shortly afterward. Lyons said he had been housed separately from other people held at the unit and that the death was classified as a suicide.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman Michelle Lyons said he was found hanging in his cell with a bed sheet attached to the cell door.

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

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