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Luis David Villafane

28 years old · died November 2008 · Lancaster County Prison, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Luis David Villafane, 28, died in November 2008 while held at Lancaster County Prison in Pennsylvania. According to Lancaster Newspapers records, he hanged himself in his cell on the C-2 block, and his death is listed among the prison's suicides since 1998. Lancaster Newspapers attributes the record of his death to its own archive, and no official account of the circumstances is given in the sources.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. Lancaster Newspapers records list his death as a suicide by hanging in his cell.

Reported by: Lancaster Newspapers records (reporters).

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