Richard Cooley
Richard Cooley, 48, was being held at the Rowan County Detention Center in Salisbury, North Carolina, when he jumped from the building's second floor, according to the Rowan County Sheriff's Office. Surveillance video shows him landing headfirst on the first floor near a stationed officer, and a nurse reached him within three minutes. He was taken to Rowan Regional Medical Center and later to Baptist Hospital, where he died. The sheriff's office's account is the main source here, and the reporting gives no further detail about how he died.
Cause of death, as reported: Cause not yet determined. The Rowan County Sheriff's Office says Richard Cooley jumped from the building's second floor, landed headfirst on the first floor, and that a nurse reached him within three minutes.
Reported by: Rowan County Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.