Died in prison
Michael Vanross
Michael Vanross, a 48-year-old Black man, died on April 1, 2019, while held at the El Dorado Correctional Facility in El Dorado, Kansas, where he was in the custody of the Kansas Department of Corrections. The department said he died of cardiac arrhythmia. The department listed the manner of death as natural.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Kansas Department of Corrections listed the death as natural from cardiac arrhythmia, though an earlier account from the same agency said contraband drugs could be involved while autopsy and lab results were pending.
Reported by: Kansas Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.