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CEDAR CITY, Utah (AP) — Authorities have branded an inmate's death at the Iron County Jail in Cedar City as an apparent suicide.
According to the county attorney's office, medical personnel sent to the jail found the inmate dead early Friday morning.
The inmate's name wasn't immediately released.
The Spectrum of St. George reports (http://bit.ly/1fPW4X3 ) the death is under investigation by the county's Critical Incident Task Force, a group of detectives from different law enforcement agencies charged with looking into inmate deaths and officer-involved shootings.
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Information from: The Spectrum, http://www.thespectrum.com
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