Ryan Myrick
Ryan Myrick, 35, died on February 16, 2023, while held at the Chesapeake Correctional Center in Chesapeake, Virginia. The Chesapeake Sheriff's Office said staff found him hanging from a bed sheet in his cell during a routine safety check that afternoon, and he was pronounced dead at a hospital. The sheriff's office describes the death as an apparent suicide. The medical examiner had not yet determined an official cause of death, and police and the sheriff's office were investigating.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The Chesapeake Sheriff's Office says he was apparently hanging from a bed sheet in his cell during a routine safety check, and the medical examiner has not yet ruled on a cause of death.
Reported by: Chesapeake Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.