Name not reported
A man held in a Virginia jail was found hanging in his cell, and jail officials classed his death as a suicide. According to the account, another person held there alerted officials that he had tied a bedsheet around his neck, only minutes after a guard had completed a cell check. The article does not establish how the bedsheet came to be in his cell or how often checks were required, so those points remain open. The jail's account of the death is the official one, and no other account of it appears in the report.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide (neglect alleged). An inmate alerted officials that he had tied a bedsheet around his neck minutes after guards completed a cell check, and jail officials described the death as a suicide.
Reported by: jail officials. The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.