Name not reported
An 18-year-old man died in his cell at the Wayne County Jail, Jail Division II, shortly after midnight on June 6, 2017. Kelly Miner, director of communications for the Wayne County Sheriff's Department, said the death appears to be a suicide and came days after he had been moved from the jail's mental health unit to a general population cell. He was pronounced dead at a hospital. The Detroit Police Department Homicide Unit and the county's internal affairs unit are investigating, and the medical examiner's ruling is pending.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. Wayne County Sheriff's Department spokesperson Kelly Miner said the death appears to be a suicide, days after he was moved from the jail's mental health unit to a general population cell; the medical examiner's ruling is pending.
Reported by: Wayne County Sheriff's Department (Kelly Miner, director of communications) (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.