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CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A final investigative report reveals a Charleston County Jail inmate repeatedly voiced feeling depressed to staff and cellmates for months, and even just a day before he was found hanging in his cell.

Forrest Kreider, 33, from Michigan, died at the Medical University of South Carolina on April 24, 2024 , after he was found unresponsive at the jail. An autopsy determined his cause of death was anoxic encephalopathy due to asphyxia from hanging, and the manner of death was ruled as a suicide.

Information behind Kreider’s death is documented in the closing investigation report from the South Carolina State Law Enforcement Div

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