Mateo Diaz
Mateo Diaz died at the Colquitt County Jail in Georgia on July 2, 2015. Jail staff found him hanging in a solitary cell; the Colquitt County Sheriff's Office said he was a suicide and that he had shown no sign of being a suicide risk, while the cause was given variously as hanging from a towel hooked to a window bar. No one came forward to identify him or claim his body, and he was cremated through the county pauper program. Officials speculated he may have been part of a group of migrant farmworkers, but his identity was never confirmed and his family, if any, may never learn the full circumstances of his death.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The Colquitt County Sheriff's Office says Mateo Diaz hanged himself with a towel hooked to a window bar in a solitary cell, and says he showed no sign of being a suicide risk.
Reported by: Colquitt County Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him); Capt. Julius Cox (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.