Died in jail or a lockup

Robert Petersen

died August 2017 · Montrose County Jail, Montrose County, Colorado

Robert Petersen died by suicide in August 2017 while held at the Montrose jail in Montrose, Colorado, according to a 2019 Westword article. The article places his death among several suicides at the jail, the most recent after the death of Dillon Blodgett.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide

Reported by: news reports.

News report

Claim: Dillon Blodgett’s Preventable Jail Suicide Part of Disturbing Pattern Westword, March 28, 2019

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