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Suka K. Suka

33 years old · died August 23, 2011 · Clark County Jail, Clark County, Washington

Suka K. Suka, 33, of Vancouver, was held at the Clark County Jail. After an apparent suicide attempt at the jail, he was taken to PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center, where, according to a Clark County Sheriff's Office bulletin, he broke a window of his seventh-floor hospital room and jumped, dying early on Tuesday, August 23, 2011. The sheriff's office said a custody officer guarding him tried unsuccessfully to stop him.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The Clark County Sheriff's Office bulletin says he jumped from a seventh-floor hospital window after an apparent suicide attempt at the jail.

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

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