Deaths in Custody
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Shane Dean Hildahl

37 years old · died August 9, 2011 · Yellow Medicine County Jail, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota

Shane Dean Hildahl, 37, died on August 9, 2011, while held at the Yellow Medicine County Jail in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. A news report claimed the death was a suicide. The available source gives no further details about who he was, how he came to be held there, or what the circumstances were. Any questions about the events leading to his death, including whether staff checked on him as required, remain unanswered in the material reviewed.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide

Reported by: news report.

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