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Stephen Jerome Bragg II

45 years old · died January 25, 2023 · District of Columbia County, District of Columbia

Stephen Jerome Bragg II died on January 25, 2023, at George Washington University Hospital while in the custody of the D.C. Department of Corrections. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner gave the cause of death as: Bilateral Pulmonary Thromboemboli due to Right Leg Deep Vein Thrombosis Due to Complications of Obesity. It ruled the manner of death natural.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. D.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner recorded the manner of death as natural.

Reported by: D.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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