Name not reported
A 45-year-old man died at the Adult Detention Center at the Community Justice Campus in Indianapolis on January 17, 2022, less than two days after he was booked there. The Marion County Sheriff's Office said jail staff found him unresponsive and not breathing around 6:50 a.m. Officials said preliminarily that he died by suicide and that he had shown no suicidal ideation at booking, so he had been housed in a detox unit. The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, the Forensic Services Agency and the sheriff's internal affairs unit are investigating the death.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The Marion County Sheriff's Office preliminarily ruled the death a suicide and said he showed no suicidal ideation at booking.
Reported by: Marion County Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.