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Grafton prison inmate kills himself by jumping off a building
By chroniclet.com
Published: 10/03/2018

CLEVELAND — A convicted rapist sentenced to serve thousands of years in an Ohio prison died by suicide last week.

Ronnie Shelton, who was convicted of raping more than 30 women in a string of attacks in Cleveland in the 1980s, suffered a fractured skull when he jumped off a building at Grafton Correctional Institution on Sept. 25. Shelton was pronounced dead at a Cleveland hospital later that day.

Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction spokeswoman Jo Ellen Smith declined to comment, citing an ongoing investigation. County records reviewed Tuesday show investigators do not suspect foul play.

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