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DeJuan Cole
Gender : Male
Age : 22
Race : Black
Date : 11/29/2023
Location : Central Patrol Division Downtown West
City : St. Louis
County : St. Louis
State : Missouri
Agency : St. Louis PD
Officer(s) :Unknown
Cause of Death : Gunshot
Event : Suicide in police custody
OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :
DeJuan Cole was arrested and in jail lockup when he allegedly made a suicide attempt by unknown method and was left in critical condition. He died 6 days later in the hospital. He was a young man who had worked as a cleaner, had a 2-year-old son, and had been arrested for theft when he died in jail under not entirely clear circumstances. IncarcerNation does not track deaths of convicted prison inmates as data on them are too inconsistently available but the database does track deaths in jails after arrest (prior to conviction). Mr. Cole had been taken into custody and was in jail pending charges in the arrest and booking process when the critical injury occurred. His organs were donated to several recipients.
