Troy Allen Crook
Troy Allen Crook, 40, was held at the Cummins Unit in Grady, Arkansas. The Arkansas Department of Correction said staff found him with self-inflicted wounds in his single-person cell around 1 a.m. on a Tuesday in May 2019, and that he was taken to the prison infirmary and then to a hospital. He died the next morning; a department spokesman called the death a suicide, while a department news release listed the manner of death as undetermined. Arkansas State Police and the department's internal investigation are reviewing the death.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. Arkansas Department of Correction spokesman Solomon Graves said Crook was found with self-inflicted wounds in his cell, and the Arkansas State Police are investigating the death.
Reported by: Arkansas Department of Correction (the agency that held him); Arkansas State Police (outside investigators).