Died in jail or a lockup
Robert Wayne Sheppard, Jr.
Robert Wayne Sheppard, Jr., 51, died on October 22, 2025, while held at the Western Virginia Regional Jail in Roanoke County, Virginia. The jail said he was pronounced dead at 11:47 a.m. after he was found in his cell, and it gives natural causes as its preliminary finding. That finding is the jail's own account, and the Chief Medical Examiner's Office has yet to complete its autopsy.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Western Virginia Regional Jail says its preliminary finding is natural causes, pending the Chief Medical Examiner's autopsy.
Reported by: Western Virginia Regional Jail (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.