An inmate of the Wyandotte County Jail was found unresponsive in a cell at 6:33 a.m. Thursday, March 3, according to a news release from the Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Office.
The inmate, identified as Jason P. Foley, 41, of Lansing, Kansas, was found by a deputy making a routine cell check, the news release stated.
Foley was pronounced dead, after the efforts of deputies and EMS personnel to revive him, according to the spokesman.
The Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Office and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation are investigating, the spokesman stated. According to the Sheriff’s Office, preliminary stage evidence pointed toward suicide as the cause of death.