Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died September 2019 · Eagle County Detention Facility, Eagle County, Colorado

A person died by suicide in the Eagle County Detention facility in Colorado in September 2019, the second such death at the jail that month, according to Sheriff James van Beek in a column published in the Vail Daily and reported by Real Vail. The sheriff's column did not give the person's name, age or the circumstances of the death. The column asks how the deaths were handled and what steps will be taken to prevent another death at the jail.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. Sheriff James van Beek says the second of two September 2019 deaths at the Eagle County Detention facility was a suicide.

Reported by: Eagle County Sheriff's Office (the agency that held them). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held them.

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