Nicholas Alahverdian
Nicholas Alahverdian grew up in Rhode Island, where he served as a teenage page at the State House and later advocated for reforms to the state's child welfare system. He regularly appeared in public in a wheelchair with an oxygen tank. He died on June 25, 2026, at a hospital in Utah while in the custody of the Utah Department of Corrections. The department, through director of communications Richard Piatt, said he died from complications of an existing medical condition after he chose to stop medical treatment, and it has not released details of his health. His family was notified of his death.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Utah Department of Corrections said he died of complications of an existing medical condition after he chose to stop medical treatment.
Reported by: Utah Department of Corrections, through director of communications Richard Piatt (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.