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Wed 16 Aug, 2006 09:36 am
Quote:Inmate Kills Self With Toilet Paper
POSTED: 11:44 am EDT August 15, 2006
SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- Investigators said a 35-year-old South Carolina man killed himself just two days after being convicted of committing a lewd act on a minor.
Howard Darrell Melton was found unconscious in his prison cell at Kirkland Correctional Institution in Columbia Friday morning, according to a press release from the state Department of Corrections.
The State Law Enforcement Division is investigating the death.
"We did have a confirmed suicide from the Department of Corrections," said Ted Kennedy, chief deputy coroner for Richland County.
The State newspaper reported that Richland County deputy coroner Ted Kennedy said Melton suffocated himself by stuffing toilet paper in his mouth and his nostrils.
When Melton was in the custody of the Spartanburg County Detention Center, he was considered a suicide risk. Melton was taken to Kirkland early Thursday morning.
Melton ran Timber Creek Retriever Training with his black Labrador retriever, Timber, according to The Herald-Journal.
This may only be the TP of the iceberg....
Umm...would have thought that kind of suffocation would be damned difficult to pull off...
Is it me or did that report seem to end rather abruptly?
They'd better flush out the real cause of death soon! His family could hire a lawyer and sewer for wrongful death.
It's always possible that he just didn't like the a-commode-dations at the jail...
It's the end of the roll for you, man.
Snif... Always the same in those prisons. You know, they finally come out of the (water) closet, and then... they just choke.
It's always a dilemma when you hit bottom. Toilet oneself live and suffer or to end it all.
Prison can't be exactly Charmin, after all.
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