Martin Scott Ransone
Martin Scott Ransone, 64, died on March 7, 2025, while held pretrial at the Western Virginia Regional Jail in Virginia. The jail said his initial findings point to natural causes, and it said jail medical and security staff responded and Roanoke County Fire EMS was called before he was pronounced dead at 12:16 a.m. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Roanoke is conducting an autopsy to determine the cause of death. No family accounts or sources describing who he was were available in the reporting.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The jail's initial findings point to natural causes, and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is conducting an autopsy, so the cause is not yet final.
Reported by: Western Virginia Regional Jail (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.