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Yanet Diaz

33 years old · died February 27, 2014 · Santa Rita Jail, Alameda County, California

Yanet Diaz, 33, was married, and her family was by her side at the hospital when she died. She was held at the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, California, where the Alameda County Sheriff's Office said she was found hanging in a cell she was kept in alone on February 27, 2014. She was taken to Washington Hospital in Fremont, where she was placed on life support and declared brain dead. The sheriff's office classifies her death as a suicide, citing asphyxia by hanging.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide

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

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