Inmate Dies After Deputies Found Him Hanging In Jail Cell

A 32-year-old inmate passed away a week after he was found hanging in his cell at the Cherokee County Adult Detention Center.

Canton resident Jose Castillo-Ramirez died Saturday at Northside Hospital-Cherokee, the Cherokee Sheriff’s Office said early Saturday morning.

Castillo-Ramirez was found around 1:30 p.m. July 4 “hanging from a bed sheet in his cell,” Persons Commander Lt. Michael J. Crier added.

Crier said Castillo-Ramirez was resuscitated and taken to the hospital where he later succumbed to his injuries.

​Ramirez had been in custody since April when he was arrested for aggravated assault (FVA), false imprisonment (FVA), disorderly conduct, criminal trespassing (FVA) and simple Assault (FVA).

Crier added no other inmates were in his cell at the time of the incident.

Ramirez’s body will be taken to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Crime Lab for an autopsy, and the state agency is investigating the incident, Crier stated.

It’s the third inmate found unresponsive or dead in his cell since late 2014. Ellenwood resident Demetrie Jones, 32, “most likely died from complications of his medical condition,” Cherokee Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Lt. Jay Baker previously told Patch in December.

He passed away in the facility just days after he was booked into the jail on a probation violation charge.

Bobby Kilgore, 71, a resident of Palmetto, also died last month after he was also in custody on a probation violation charge. The sheriff’s office previously told Patch that Kilgore had a medical condition that required him to be housed in the facility’s Medical Unit and was under the care of the jail’s medical staff.

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