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Percy Wallace

71 years old · died October 12, 2025 · Elayn Hunt Correctional Center, Iberville Parish, Louisiana

Percy Wallace, 71, died on October 12, 2025, at Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, where he was held in the custody of the state Department of Public Safety and Corrections. The department lists his cause of death as a respiratory illness. According to the department, no autopsy was requested because of his existing medical conditions.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections lists the death as a respiratory illness, and officials said no autopsy was requested because of his existing medical conditions.

Reported by: Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (the agency that held him); Louisiana Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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