19-year-old Suspect Strangled in Jail

Today's Washington Post reports:

"A 19-year-old man suspected of killing a Prince George's County police officer was strangled in the county jail two days after his arrest, the state medical examiner's office concluded yesterday."

" Ronnie L. White, who was found unresponsive Sunday morning, died of asphyxiation, and two small bones in his neck were broken, according to preliminary autopsy findings. Officials offered no theories about who might have killed him...."

Mr. White was in solitary confinement when he died, and there were no video cameras sweeping the area.  Relevant officials said something that conflicted with the second paragraph of the Washington Post's report:

"Jail and hospital officials said Sunday that White's body had no visible signs of trauma and that they could not rule out the possibility that he committed suicide."

No visible signs of trauma?  The first paragraph of the article say that two small bones in his neck were broken. 

Having no expertise in forensic medicine, I suppose it's possible for a young man to break his own neck bones while committing suicide.

Comments

[thinblueline]

"No visible signs of trauma." Unless you're using x-ray vision I don't know how anyone would have seen that two smalls bones in his neck were broken before the autopsy. That's why they do an autopsy. You don't rule out anything, including suicide, before you complete an autopsy.

[Deb]

Thin blue,

Thanks for pointing that out. As I said, I have no expertise (I mean absolutely none) in forensic medicine.

I thought there was something weird about the article, but it was really just my lack of understanding. :)

[Dee]

Only the officers and jail officials had access to him whether they did it themselves or whether they allowed another inmate or inmates to do it they are guilty and they should rot in hell, I could care less about how many police officers he killed as muh killing as they are doing. This is something that will continue because now they are being wreckless.