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Michael Alan Baker

60 years old · died September 22, 2015 · Duchesne County Jail, Duchesne County, Utah

Michael Alan Baker, 60, died on September 22, 2015, while held at the Duchesne County Jail in Utah. Jail staff found him unresponsive about 9:40 a.m. in the shower area of a general population housing unit, and he was taken to Uintah Basin Medical Center in Roosevelt, where doctors pronounced him dead. Duchesne County Sheriff's Lt. Jeremy Curry said the death appears to be a suicide, but officials declined to say what caused it.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. Duchesne County Sheriff's Lt. Jeremy Curry said the death appears to be a suicide, but officials declined to say what caused it.

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

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