Died in prison
Tyrone Briggs
Tyrone Briggs, 29, died on November 11, 2019, while in the custody of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections at State Correctional Institution - Mahanoy in Schuylkill County. A news report gave pepper spray as the cause of his death. The Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, which received the death report, lists the manner of death as natural. The two accounts conflict on the cause and manner of his death.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by staff (disputed). A news report names pepper spray as the cause of death, while the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections lists the death as natural causes.
Reported by: news report; Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (the agency that held him).