Yaron Segal
Yaron Segal, 30, was an Israeli citizen and postdoctoral researcher at MIT's Photovoltaics Research Laboratory, where colleagues described him as a leader who mentored five graduate students and helped raise more than $1.8 million in research funding. He was held awaiting trial at Federal Correctional Institution Englewood in Colorado, where he died on April 13, 2012. Officials at the facility said guards found him alone in his cell hanging from a homemade noose and that he apparently killed himself. The FBI is investigating the death.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. John Sell, an executive assistant at Federal Correctional Institution Englewood, said guards found Segal hanging from a homemade noose in his cell and that he apparently killed himself.
Reported by: Federal Correctional Institution Englewood (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.