Steven Roy Earley
Steven Roy Earley Jr., 43, died on January 2, 2018, at Tyger River Correctional Institution in Enoree, South Carolina, where he was being held. Spartanburg County Coroner Rusty Cleveger said the death appeared to be a hanging, and the coroner's office was called before 3 a.m. The coroner listed the manner of death as pending, with an autopsy planned for later that week. A record compiled by Incarceration Transparency lists the death as suicide by asphyxiation, a classification the coroner had not yet made.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The coroner's office and state corrections officials reported an apparent hanging, and Incarceration Transparency's records list the death as suicide by asphyxiation.
Reported by: Spartanburg County Coroner Rusty Cleveger (medical examiner or coroner); State corrections officials (the agency that held him); Incarceration Transparency.