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Shaka Nelson

35 years old · died September 28, 2020 · State Correctional Institution Huntingdon, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania

Shaka Bekoe Nelson died in 2020 while held at the State Correctional Institution - Huntingdon in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. Reports give his date of death as September 25 or September 28, 2020, and his age as 35 or 36. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections reported his death to state authorities as a suicide.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections reported the manner of death as suicide.

Reported by: Pennsylvania 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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