Died in prison
Willie "Gypsy" Adams
Willie "Gypsy" Adams died in March 1975 while held at USP Marion, a federal prison in Illinois. The Bureau of Prisons said he died by suicide about six months after the 1974 attack on Officer John W. Johnson in a cell house. The bureau's history page records the death in a single sentence and gives no other details about the circumstances. No other sources are available to say how he was being supervised or what care he received before his death.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The Bureau of Prisons history page records his death as a suicide and gives no details of the circumstances.
Reported by: Bureau of Prisons (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.