One of 2 people whose names were not reported
A 13-year-old boy died on February 9, 2019, at the Ware Youth Center, a juvenile facility in Red River Parish, Louisiana, and was pronounced dead at a hospital in Coushatta. Red River Parish sheriff's investigators said he hanged himself with bed sheets, and authorities are treating the death as a suicide. Investigators said the death is not connected to another death at the facility. Staff interviews and video from the facility were being reviewed.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. Joey Cox, executive director of the Ware Youth Center, said the boy took his own life, and the Red River Parish Sheriff's Office said an investigation was underway.
Reported by: Joey Cox, executive director of the Ware Youth Center (the agency that held him); Red River Parish Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.