Stanley Kogut
Stanley Kogut was a Cook County Sheriff's police officer who had served in the department since 1997. He died on November 4, 2014, at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago, less than 24 hours after being admitted there. Sheriff's Department officials said he apparently hanged himself with a bedsheet in his cell. The Cook County Jail executive director said she could not comment on his state of mind, and the jail director called his death a tragedy on multiple levels.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. Sheriff's Department officials said he apparently hanged himself with a bedsheet in his cell.
Reported by: Sheriff's Department officials (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.