{"id":1777,"date":"2010-08-29T13:43:10","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T20:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2010-08-29T13:43:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-29T20:43:10","slug":"news-brief-coroner-concludes-lewis-county-jail-inmates-death-was-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=1777","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Coroner concludes Lewis County Jail inmate&#8217;s death was suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Lewis County Coroner&#8217;s Office determined an inmate found dead in his cell Wednesday at the Lewis County Jail died from asphyxia due to ligature strangulation.<\/p>\n<p>That means something around his neck cut off his air supply, Chief Deputy Coroner Dawn Harris said. An autopsy was conducted on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old dead man is Daniel Wolfgang Fish, Harris said. The coroner concluded the death was a suicide.<\/p>\n<p>The Mossyrock, and former Morton, resident was isolated in a high-security cell by himself, at his request, according to the Lewis County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Fish was arrested and booked Tuesday in connection with several incidents of past sexual abuse of a female relative which had been recently reported to the Morton Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Jail staff found him Wednesday evening after he had apparently strangled himself using bedding, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office. Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown reported suicide notes were found in Fish&#8217;s cell.<\/p>\n<p>It was the third inmate suicide in the Lewis County Jail in the last four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter The Lewis County Coroner&#8217;s Office determined an inmate found dead in his cell Wednesday at the Lewis County Jail died from asphyxia due to ligature strangulation. That means something around his neck cut off his air supply, Chief Deputy Coroner Dawn Harris said. An autopsy was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1780,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions\/1780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}