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Tonya Zorn

35 years old · died July 23, 2025 · Aiken County Detention Center, Aiken County, South Carolina

Tonya Zorn, 35, of Warrenville, died at the Aiken County Detention Center in South Carolina in July 2025. Sources say she had been held there for about two weeks while waiting for a bed to open at a treatment center in Columbia, and that she was found unresponsive in her cell on July 23. She was taken to Aiken Regional Medical Centers, where she was pronounced dead. The Aiken County Sheriff's Office said there were no suspicious circumstances, and an autopsy was scheduled while SLED and the Aiken County Coroner's Office investigated the cause and manner of death.

Cause of death, as reported: Cause not yet determined. The Aiken County Sheriff's Office said there were no suspicious circumstances, while an autopsy is pending and SLED and the coroner's office investigate.

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

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