Deaths in Custody
Died in prison

Shaun M. Wakefield

36 years old · died November 2019 · Buckingham Correctional Center, Buckingham County, Virginia

Shaun M. Wakefield, 36, of Woodbridge, Virginia, died in November 2019 while held at Buckingham Correctional Center in Dillwyn, Virginia. Tazewell County Sheriff Brian Hieatt said he had an illness. The sheriff did not release further details about how he died.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. Tazewell County Sheriff Brian Hieatt said Wakefield had an illness and that no other details had been released.

Reported by: Tazewell County Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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