SAN JOSE – A 24-year-old inmate at the Main Jail in San Jose died in the hospital on July 10, five days after he was found unresponsive in his cell, according to authorities.
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On July 5, the man was arrested and booked on “two counts of robbery, possession of a loaded firearm, various other felonies and several outstanding warrants,” Santa Clara County sheriff’s Deputy Felicia Segura said in a news release.
The Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office determined that the man died by suicide.
“Deputies and medical staff immediately performed life-saving measures on him by administering CPR until medical personnel arrived,” Segura said. He died in the care of a hospital after several days.
The death marked the county’s seventh in-custody death of the year.
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