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A 43-year-old man died at the Alachua County Jail in Florida on July 31, 2020. According to the sheriff's office, deputies found him with a sheet tied around his neck and to his bunk during an early-morning count, and he was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead later that morning. The sheriff's office said the death appeared to be a suicide and that he had not previously expressed any intention to harm himself. An investigation into the death was ongoing when the report was published.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The sheriff's office says the man was found hanged with a sheet during an early-morning count and had not indicated any intent to harm himself.
Reported by: Alachua County Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.