Name not reported
A 30-year-old man who lived in the Lawndale neighborhood on Chicago's West Side died at Cook County Jail on Sunday, October 6, 2019, while held there before trial, according to the medical examiner's office. The Cook County Sheriff's Office said he was found unresponsive in his cell in Division IX around 6 p.m., and that he was taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital, where he died. Sheriff's office spokesman Matt Walberg described the death as an apparent suicide. The medical examiner's autopsy results were still pending at the time of reporting.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. Cook County Sheriff's Office spokesman Matt Walberg said the man was found unresponsive in his cell and the death was apparently a suicide, with autopsy results pending.
Reported by: Cook County Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.