Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
An unnamed man died in 2015 while in the custody of the Whitfield County Jail, at a local hospital. The Whitfield County Sheriff's Office said the cause of death was cancer and a bowel blockage. The same account of the death appears in reports from 2015 and 2018, and no name is given for him.
Cause of death, as reported: Died in an accident. Major Lynnette LaRocque of the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office said he hanged himself accidentally while trying to convince jailers he was mentally ill.
Reported by: Baldwin County Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.