Robert T. Kronsberg
Robert T. Kronsberg, 35, of James Island, died on December 6, 2017, in his cell at Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina, where he was held in the custody of the state prison system. South Carolina Department of Corrections spokesman Jeff Taillon said officials believed he had killed himself. The Richland County coroner had not yet released a cause of death when the report was published. No other accounts of his life or of the circumstances of his death are cited here.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. South Carolina Department of Corrections spokesman Jeff Taillon said it appears he killed himself, and the advocacy group Incarceration Transparency lists asphyxiation by hanging.
Reported by: S.C. Department of Corrections spokesman Jeff Taillon (the agency that held him); Incarceration Transparency (advocates).