"St. Augustine Record does not report names of suicide victims?" MORRIS-owned Record STILL lets Sheriff determine what a suicide is, without waiting for ME's report? Without reporting?
That's just what the MORRIS-owned Record did after the September 2, 2010 homicide of Michelle O'Connell. Had enough?
This appears to be a press release.
This now deserves an actual news story, written by an actual reporter, especially since the mother of the alleged suicide victim identified him by name.
Posted August 30, 2017 05:40 am
By THE RECORD
Jail inmate committed suicide, Sheriff’s Office says
A St. Augustine man died Tuesday morning after he jumped from a second story balcony near his cell in the St. Johns County jail, officials said.
The 39-year-old man was pronounced dead at the jail shortly after the incident, Sheriff’s Office spokesman Cmdr. Chuck Mulligan said.
Mulligan said the inmate had been in the jail about six days when, after returning from breakfast, he was climbing the stairs back to his cell. At the top of the stairs, instead of continuing onto the landing, he climbed over the railing, climbed to the top of a chain-link fence that extends from the balcony railing to the ceiling, and jumped.
Mulligan said witnesses and officials had been interviewed following the incident and said that the man was not on suicide watch had shown no signs of wanting to harm himself.
He had been booked into the jail on Aug. 23 on charges of burglary with an assault or battery and tampering with a witness by preventing communication to law enforcement.
The St. Augustine Record does not print the names of suicide victims.
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