CLAY COUNTY, Mo. (KCTV) - The death of a Clay County Detention Center inmate is under investigation.

The Clay County Sheriff’s Office says 48-year-old Christopher G. Ballowe was found by his cellmate during an apparent suicide attempt on Oct. 10.

Inmates and other detention center staff began performing life-saving measures until an ambulance arrived and took Ballowe to the hospital. Six days later, Ballowe died.

Authorities said Ballowe had just returned from a court hearing and had exhibited no prior indications that he was at risk for harming himself.

He had been booked into the detention center on Oct. 2 on a felony domestic assault charge and was also being held for violating his probation on another domestic assault charge.

The Clay County Sheriff’s Office said an investigation

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