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| Death of man in Indiana jail ruled a suicide |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 08/08/2005 |
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A Chicago man being held in the Lake County, Ind., Jail on theft charges committed suicide by hanging himself with a bedsheet, the sheriff's department said. James Hunt, 29, was discovered hanged from a cell window on Wednesday, Lake County Sheriff's Department spokesman Mike Higgins said. Guards and jail medical personnel performed CPR until paramedics arrived and took Hunt to The Methodist Hospitals in Merrillville, where he was pronounced dead a short time later. Hunt had been in the jail since Saturday, when he and two others were arrested by Hobart police on charges of stealing computers from a store. An autopsy performed last Wednesday determined Hunt died of asphyxia. The Lake County coroner's office ruled the death a suicide. |
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