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Thomas Gray Jr.

41 years old · died April 24, 2025 · State Correctional Institution - Fayette, Fayette County, Pennsylvania

Thomas Gray Jr., 41, died on April 24, 2025, at SCI Fayette, a state prison about 50 miles south of Pittsburgh, where he was held in the custody of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. WFMZ reported that he was found unresponsive in his cell and that prison staff began life-saving measures before he was pronounced dead a short time later. The Department of Corrections reported his death to the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency as a suicide. The Fayette County Coroner's Office will determine the official cause and manner of death.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections lists the death as a suicide, and the Fayette County Coroner's Office has not yet determined the official cause.

Reported by: Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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