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Police: Killer of Bethune-Cookman students hangs himself in Miami-Dade jail
By miamiherald.com- Charles Rabin
Published: 09/22/2015

York Zed Bodden, told he was being evicted by his roommates and angered over a $200 slight, returned to the apartment a few minutes later. He opened fire, killing two Bethune-Cookman University music students with shots to the head, and gravely wounding a third, police said. Another man barely escaped after leaping through a glass window.

Just a few hours after being captured in North Miami and jailed on Friday, Bodden, left with few options, once again did what he could to take control of the situation: Police found him hanging and unresponsive in a jail cell in section K-28 at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center near Doral.

“It was a suicide,” said Miami-Dade Department of Corrections spokeswoman Janelle Hall. “There’s a full-fledged investigation going on.”

The deaths on Thursday of Diona McDonald, 19, and Timesha “Lisa” Carswell, 21, and the severe wounding of Micah Parham, 21, in their apartment stunned the students and faculty at the 111-year-old Daytona Beach school founded by civil rights advocate and educator Mary McLeod Bethune. The university released a statement expressing sorrow, and the shootings overshadowed an on-campus football game Saturday.

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