Deaths in Custody
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Robert Blake

38 years old · died May 24, 2020 · Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Robert Blake, 38, died on May 24, 2020, in Allegheny County, in the custody of the Port Authority Transit Police. The death was reported to the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, which lists the manner of death as suicide.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. Port Authority Transit Police recorded the manner of death as suicide.

Reported by: Port Authority Transit Police (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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