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Maurice Carr

25 years old · died September 7, 2015 · Sarasota County Jail, Sarasota County, Florida

Maurice Carr, 25, died on September 7, 2015, at the Sarasota County Jail in Sarasota, Florida. The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office said a corrections officer found him hanging in his cell early that Monday morning, and he was pronounced dead at Sarasota Memorial Hospital. The sheriff's office said a preliminary investigation indicates suicide, but the investigation and the medical examiner's determination of the cause of death were still pending when the report was published.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office says a preliminary investigation indicates Maurice Carr hanged himself in his cell, while the medical examiner's cause-of-death determination is still pending.

Reported by: Sarasota County Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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