“52-year-old convicted kidnapper and rapist Ariel Castro was found hanging” Tuesday night inside his Ohio prison cell, Cleveland CBS affiliate WOIO reports, quoting JoEllen Smith of the Ohio Department of Corrections:
Inmate Ariel Castro was found hanging in his cell this evening at 9:20 pm at the Correctional Reception Center in Orient. He was housed in protective custody which means he was in a cell by himself and rounds are required every 30 minutes at staggered intervals. Upon finding inmate Castro, prison medical staff began performing life saving measures. Shortly after he was transported to OSUMC where he was pronounced dead at 10:52 pm. A thorough review of this incident is underway and more information can be provided as it becomes available pending the status of the investigation.
As Dan Riehl notes at Breitbart.com, “Castro had been sentenced to life plus 1,000 years for kidnapping and sexually assaulting Amanda Berry, Michelle Knight and Gina DeJesus while holding them captive for over a decade.”
At [Castro’s] sentencing, Knight confronted Castro, reading a damning statement.
“I spent 11 years in hell,” she told her tormentor, “your hell is just beginning.”
Perhaps literally so, tonight.
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