Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A 27-year-old man died at the Lee County Detention Facility in Opelika on the morning of November 10, 2016. He was found unresponsive, alone in a holding cell, and the sheriff's office said he appeared to have taken his own life. His name was not released in the initial reports.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The sheriff's office says the man apparently hanged himself with a sheet in his holding cell.
Reported by: Lee County Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.