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Roni Kachanes

61 years old · died April 19, 2020 · Iowa Medical and Classification Center, Johnson County, Iowa

Roni Kachanes, 61, died on the morning of Sunday, April 19, 2020, in a hospice room at the Iowa Medical and Classification Center in Coralville. He had been placed in hospice care because of a chronic illness. The Iowa Department of Corrections says his death was from natural causes.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Iowa Department of Corrections says Roni Kachanes died of natural causes while in hospice care at the Iowa Medical and Classification Center.

Reported by: Iowa Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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