Del. inmates who died in custody between 2000 and April 2005
Source: Delaware Heath and Human Services
09/25/2005Name: "Porter, Robert"
Race: white
Date of birth: 7/17/1964
Date of death: 4/13/2005
Cause of death: ANOXIC BRAIN INJURY DUE TO HANGING
Manner of death: SUICIDE-HANGING
Prison: GANDER HILL
Name: "Johnson, Jackie"
Race: black
Date of birth: 12/16/1952
Date of death: 4/7/2005
Cause of death: SEIZURE DISORDER
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Snow, Frederick"
Race: white
Date of birth: 11/16/1954
Date of death: 4/7/2005
Cause of death: METASTATIC NON-SMALL CELL CARCINOMA OF LUNG
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: GANDER HILL
Name: "Trotman, Ronald W."
Race: black
Date of birth: 9/9/1967
Date of death: 3/4/2005
Cause of death:
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Wilson, Jermaine"
Race: black
Date of birth: 1/15/1985
Date of death: 2/18/2005
Cause of death: ASPHYXIA DUE TO HANGING
Manner of death: SUICIDE-HANGING
Prison: DCC
Name: "Bolden, Deserae"
Race: black
Date of birth: 7/15/1961
Date of death: 2/17/2005
Cause of death: DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY; OTHER SIGNIF: CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Hamilton, Earl F."
Race: white
Date of birth: 4/30/1933
Date of death: 2/8/2005
Cause of death: "MULTIORGAN FAILURE WITH RENAL, PULMONARY & CARDIAC
FAILURE DUE TO SEPSIS, ARTERIOSCLEROTIC CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE WITH
HISTORY OF MYOCARIDAL INFARCTION, CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE & ATRIAL
FIBRILLATION, DIABETES MELLITUS, INSULIN DEPENDENT, UNCONTROLLED, &"
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Morales, Luis N."
Race: white
Date of birth: 9/14/1950
Date of death: 2/7/2005
Cause of death:
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Anderson, Darnell"
Race: black
Date of birth: 1/1/1970
Date of death: 1/20/2005
Cause of death: PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII PNEUMONIA
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: GANDER HILL
Name: "Bosman, Walter C."
Race: white
Date of birth: 9/12/1963
Date of death: 12/28/2004
Cause of death: "LIVER FAILURE DUE TO HEPATITUS C; OTHER SIGNIF: ENCEPHALOPATHY, DIABETES"
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Kovatto, Rocco"
Race: white
Date of birth: 1/14/1947
Date of death: 11/29/2004
Cause of death: "MULTISYSTEM ORGAN FAILURE DUE TO SEVERE CELLULITIS OF
LEFT LEG; OTHER SIGNIF: CIRRHOSIS OF LIVER, CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE"
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: SCI
Name: "Barkes, Christopher"
Race: white
Date of birth: 12/12/1966
Date of death: 11/14/2004
Cause of death: ASPHYXIA DUE TO HANGING
Manner of death: SUICIDE-HANGING
Prison: GANDER HILL
Name: "Edwards, Tony"
Race: black
Date of birth: 7/25/1952
Date of death: 9/24/2004
Cause of death: "END STAGE LIVER DISEASE DUE TO CIRRHOSIS OF LIVER WITH
ASCITES, JAUNDICE & CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE DUE TO HEPATITIS C;
OTHER SIGNIF: DIABETES MELLITUS, INSULIN DEPENDENT"
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Saunders, Robert"
Race: black
Date of birth: 10/24/1960
Date of death: 9/4/2004
Cause of death:
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: GANDER HILL
Name: "Gannon, John M."
Race: white
Date of birth: 8/17/1951
Date of death: 8/21/2004
Cause of death: PNEUMONIA SPESIS
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison:
Name: "Myers, Lloyd D."
Race: black
Date of birth: 11/3/1962
Date of death: 7/15/2004
Cause of death: ATHEROSCLEROTIC & HYPERTENSIVE CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: GANDER HILL
Name: "Miller, Scott A."
Race: black
Date of birth: 1/9/1959
Date of death: 7/12/2004
Cause of death: MULTIPLE GUNSHOT WOUNDS (SHOT BY CERT TEAM)
Manner of death: HOMOCIDE
Prison: DCC
Name: "Junginger, Francis H."
Race: white
Date of birth: 3/21/
Date of death: 6/22/2004
Cause of death: ARTERIOSCLEROTIC AND HYPERTENSIVE CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: WEBB
Name: "Dutton, David"
Race: white
Date of birth: 9/17/1952
Date of death: 5/29/2004
Cause of death: HEPATITIS C AND RENAL DYSFUNCTION
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Spell, Bruce"
Race: black
Date of birth: 2/3/1948
Date of death: 3/1/2004
Cause of death: SPONTANEOUS INTRACEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE DUE TO HYPERTENSIVE CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Anderson, James"
Race: black
Date of birth:
Date of death: 2/19/2004
Cause of death: LUNG CANCER
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Eaton, Phillip"
Race: white
Date of birth: 5/22/1940
Date of death: 1/11/2004
Cause of death: METASTATIC LUNG CANCER
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Jackson, Robert T."
Race: white
Date of birth: 7/31/1967
Date of death: 11/24/2003
Cause of death:
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Hetrick, Billie"
Race: white
Date of birth: 9/5/1938
Date of death: 11/4/2003
Cause of death: LUNG CANCER
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: BAYLOR
Name: "Boyer, Chandler"
Race: black
Date of birth: 7/23/1961
Date of death: 11/3/2003
Cause of death: COMPLICATIONS OF PULMONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: GANDER HILL
Name: "Chance, Louis"
Race: white
Date of birth: 6/30/1966
Date of death: 9/23/2003
Cause of death:
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Anderson, James V."
Race: white
Date of birth: 2/25/1959
Date of death: 9/23/2003
Cause of death: COMPLICATIONS OF LIVER BIOPSY; OTHER SIGNIF: CIRRHOSIS OF LIFE DUE TO HEPATITIS C
Manner of death: ACCIDENT
Prison: SCI
Name: "Blake, Charles"
Race: white
Date of birth: 8/4/1967
Date of death: 9/7/2003
Cause of death: CANCER OF COLON DUE TO RENAL FAILURE DUE TO CARDIORESPIRATORY FAILURE DUE TO SEPSIS
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: GANDER HILL
Name: "Dillon, Mark"
Race: white
Date of birth: 1/21/1956
Date of death: 9/2/2003
Cause of death: ASPIRATION PNUMONIA AND INANITION; OTHER SIGNIF: HISTORY OF RENAL CARCINOMA
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: GANDER HILL
Name: "Coston, Bernard"
Race: black
Date of birth: 3/4/1950
Date of death: 9/2/2003
Cause of death:
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: GANDER HILL
Name: Bloomfield
Race: black
Date of birth: 9/17/1965
Date of death: 8/30/2003
Cause of death: COMPLICATIONS OF PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Hodges, James"
Race: white
Date of birth: 6/17/1973
Date of death: 8/27/2003
Cause of death: UNDETERMINED
Manner of death: UNDETERMINED
Prison: DCC
Name: "Riley, Eugene"
Race: black
Date of birth: 10/21/1961
Date of death: 8/20/2003
Cause of death: CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA DUE TO INTERSTITIAL FIBROSIS OF UNKNOWN ETIOLOGY
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Wooten, William A."
Race: white
Date of birth: 2/10/1962
Date of death: 8/11/2003
Cause of death: "SEIZURE DISORDER, HYPERTENSIVE HEART DISEASE"
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison:
Name: "Davis, Larry R."
Race: black
Date of birth: 1/23/1978
Date of death: 7/31/2003
Cause of death: DIED AT MARYLAND SHOCK TRAUMA (MARYLAND ME)
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison:
Name: "Gohagan, Paul K."
Race: white
Date of birth: 6/23/1963
Date of death: 6/23/2003
Cause of death: ACUTE DRUG INTOXICATION
Manner of death: SUICIDE-DRUG INTOXICATION
Prison: GANDER HILL
Name: "Savoy, John"
Race: black
Date of birth: 1/6/1963
Date of death: 6/12/2003
Cause of death: INTRACEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE DUE TO HYPERTENSIVE HEART DISEASE
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Hampton, Arthur"
Race: black
Date of birth: 5/6/1930
Date of death: 6/11/2003
Cause of death: METASTATIC PROSTATE CARCINOMA
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Nabinett, Henry"
Race: white
Date of birth: 7/29/1949
Date of death: 6/7/2003
Cause of death:
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: GANDER HILL
Name: "Lecato, Vernell D."
Race: black
Date of birth: 2/5/1960
Date of death: 3/27/2003
Cause of death:
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Manlove, Stephanie"
Race: black
Date of birth: 12/31/1969
Date of death: 2/22/2003
Cause of death: COMPLICATIONS OF SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSIS
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: BAYLOR
Name: "Cooper, Bryan Allen"
Race: black
Date of birth: 10/28/1968
Date of death: 2/19/2003
Cause of death:
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Smith, Gregory Donnell"
Race: black
Date of birth: 3/2/1972
Date of death: 12/15/2002
Cause of death: SICKLE CELL CRISIS AND PNEUMONIA
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: GANDER HILL
Name: "Brooks, William S."
Race: black
Date of birth:
Date of death: 12/9/2002
Cause of death: ASPIRATION DUE TO PNEUMONIA; OTHER SIGNIF: MALNUTRITION
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Patterson, Robert"
Race: black
Date of birth: 8/7/1950
Date of death: 11/30/2002
Cause of death:
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Nasir, Sakee A."
Race: black
Date of birth: 8/20/1946
Date of death: 11/28/2002
Cause of death: HEPATIC FAILURE DUE TO HEPATITIS C VIRAL INFECTION; OTHER SIGNIF: HYPERTENSIVE CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Bender, David B."
Race: white
Date of birth: 5/20/1954
Date of death: 10/31/2002
Cause of death: MULTIPLE CEREBRAL INFARCTS COMPLICATING OVERDOSE OF MULTIPLE PRESCRIBED MEDICATIONS
Manner of death: SUICIDE-OVERDOSE
Prison: DCC
Name: "Mckinney, James"
Race: white
Date of birth: 6/20/1955
Date of death: 10/23/2002
Cause of death: "HEPATORENAL SYNDROME DUE TO END STAGE LIVER DISEASE
WITH JAUNDICE, CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE & PORTAL HYPERTENSION DUE
TO CIRRHOSIS OF THE LIVER DUE TO HISTORY OF HEPATITIS C"
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Winston, Moe"
Race: black
Date of birth: 10/17/1954
Date of death: 10/21/2002
Cause of death: "HYPERTENSIVE HEART DISEASE, INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS AND CIRRHOSIS"
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Hald, Mark"
Race: white
Date of birth: 2/18/1963
Date of death: 7/20/2002
Cause of death: ATHEROSCLEROTIC HEART DISEASE
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: GANDER HILL
Name: "Miller, William E."
Race: black
Date of birth: 8/28/1960
Date of death: 7/19/2002
Cause of death:
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Franks, Brett M."
Race: black
Date of birth: 12/7/1983
Date of death: 5/22/2002
Cause of death: ASPHYXIA DUE TO HANGING
Manner of death: SUICIDE-HANGING
Prison: SCI
Name: "Shantz, Ira"
Race: white
Date of birth: 6/12/1939
Date of death: 3/31/2002
Cause of death: "CARDIAC DYSRHYTHMIA DUE TO ARTERIOSCLEROTIC CORONARY
ARTERY DISEASE; OTHER SIGNIF: CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE,
OBESITY, AND DIABETES MELLITUS"
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: SCI
Name: "Blackson, Christopher O."
Race: black
Date of birth: 6/9/1962
Date of death: 3/27/2002
Cause of death:
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Daniels, Michael"
Race: white
Date of birth: 3/7/1948
Date of death: 2/26/2002
Cause of death: "ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION DUE TO ARTERIOSCLEROTIC
CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; OTHER SIGNIF: DIABETES MELLITUS, OBESITY"
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: SCI
Name: "Sterling, Robert"
Race: black
Date of birth: 6/1/1966
Date of death: 2/24/2002
Cause of death: CARDIAC DYSRHYTHMIA DURING ACUTE PSYCHOTIC EPISODE FOLLOWING WITHDRAWAL FROM COCAINE & HEROIN
Manner of death: ACCIDENT
Prison: GANDER HILL
Name: "Sheppard, James"
Race: black
Date of birth: 7/17/1940
Date of death: 2/7/2002
Cause of death: LOBAR PNEUMONIA DUE TO STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE
COMPLICATED BY ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME AND ACUTE RENAL
FAILURE
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: SCI
Name: "Brown, Joe"
Race: black
Date of birth:
Date of death: 2/6/2002
Cause of death: HYPERTENSIVE AND ATHEROSCLEROTIC CARDIOAVASCULAR DISEASE; OTHER SIGNIF: NON-INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Marshall, Little"
Race: black
Date of birth: 1/21/1953
Date of death: 12/22/2001
Cause of death: HYPERTENSIVE AND ATHEROSCLEROTIC HEART DISEASE
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: GANDER HILL
Name: "Anderson, Artie B."
Race: black
Date of birth: 5/13/1957
Date of death: 11/25/2001
Cause of death:
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Hammel, Francis"
Race: white
Date of birth: 6/30/1941
Date of death: 8/17/2001
Cause of death: "SPONTANEOUS INTRACEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; OTHER SIGNIF:
HYPERTENSIVE HEART DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE,
DIABETES MELLITUS"
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: GANDER HILL
Name: "Cejas, Toribio"
Race: white
Date of birth: 4/16/1966
Date of death: 8/11/2001
Cause of death: "HANGING-EXTERNAL COMPRESSION OF NECK BY HANGING.
GENERALIZED VISCERAL CONGESTION. ATHEROSCLEROSIS OF LEFT MAIN ARTERY
WITH STENOSIS, SLIGHT."
Manner of death: SUICIDE-HANGING
Prison: DCC
Name: "Womer Jr., Russel H."
Race: white
Date of birth: 7/20/1949
Date of death: 8/9/2001
Cause of death: "COMPLICATIONS OF ADENOCARCINOMA OF LEFT LUNG, INCLUDING DYSPHAGIA, INANITION, AND CACHEXIA"
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Fotakos, Gerigios L."
Race: white
Date of birth: 8/26/1933
Date of death: 6/7/2001
Cause of death: RESPIRATORY FAILURE DUE TO OBSTRUCTIVE PNEUMONIA DUE TO CANCER OF THE LEFT LUNG WITH METASTASIS TO THE BRAIN
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Hameen, Abdullah T."
Race: black
Date of birth: 9/7/1963
Date of death: 5/25/2001
Cause of death: EXECUTION
Manner of death: HOMOCIDE-EXECUTION
Prison:
Name: "Crumpler, James"
Race: black
Date of birth: 6/6/1955
Date of death: 5/19/2001
Cause of death:
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Brezial, James"
Race: black
Date of birth: 1/6/1962
Date of death: 5/15/2001
Cause of death:
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Brown, Karl"
Race: black
Date of birth: 10/12/1966
Date of death: 5/12/2001
Cause of death:
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: GANDER HILL
Name: "Bervine, James E."
Race: black
Date of birth: 4/22/1969
Date of death: 5/7/2001
Cause of death:
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Dawson, David F."
Race: white
Date of birth: 4/1/1955
Date of death: 4/26/2001
Cause of death: "INTRAVENOUS INJECTION OF SODIUM PENTOTHAL, PANCURONIUM BROMIDE, AND POTASSIUM CHLORIDE"
Manner of death: HOMOCIDE-EXECUTION
Prison: DCC
Name: "Missimer, Harry E."
Race: white
Date of birth: 12/4/1973
Date of death: 4/24/2001
Cause of death: HANGING
Manner of death: SUICIDE-HANGING
Prison: GANDER HILL
Name: "Whitehurst, Paul"
Race: black
Date of birth: 6/29/1966
Date of death: 4/13/2001
Cause of death: ANOXIC ENCEPHALOPATHY DUE TO HANGING
Manner of death: SUICIDE-HANGING
Prison: DCC
Name: "Mcdonald, Robert L."
Race: white
Date of birth: 1/15/1946
Date of death: 3/4/2001
Cause of death: COMPLICATIONS OF ADENOCARCINOMA OF LEFT LUNG WITH METASTATSIS TO BRAIN
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Hall, Ivan H."
Race: white
Date of birth:
Date of death: 2/23/2001
Cause of death: "CARDIO-RESPIRATORY FAILURE DUE TO EMPHYSEMA OF LUNG
DUE TO PULMONARY EMBOLISM DUE TO CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE. CONTRIBUTING
COD HEPATITUS, PNEUMONIA, LUNG ABCESS"
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: CS
Name: "Lynn, Lb L."
Race: white
Date of birth: 11/16/1969
Date of death: 2/11/2001
Cause of death:
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: SCI
Name: "Smith, Henry Jones"
Race: black
Date of birth: 11/2/1959
Date of death: 1/5/2001
Cause of death:
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
Name: "Ardin, Saul"
Race: white
Date of birth: 3/2/1948
Date of death: 11/29/2000
Cause of death: HYPERTENSIVE AND ARTERIOSCLEROTIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; OTHER SIGNIF: INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS
Manner of death:
Prison: GANDER HILL
Name: "Weeks, Dwayne L."
Race: black
Date of birth: 8/9/1963
Date of death: 11/17/2000
Cause of death: "ACUTE CARDIO-RESPIRATORY FAILURE DUE TO INTRAVENOUS
INJECTION OF SODIUM PENTOTHAL, PANCURONIUM BROMIDE AND POTASSIUM
CHLORIDE"
Manner of death: HOMOCIDE EXECUTION
Prison: DCC
Name: "Coverdale, Edward"
Race: white
Date of birth: 2/6/1958
Date of death: 11/15/2000
Cause of death:
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: SCI
Name: "Sanders, Edward"
Race: black
Date of birth: 6/9/1955
Date of death: 10/3/2000
Cause of death: TRANSFERRED TO VIRGINIA AND DIED THERE.
Manner of death:
Prison:
Name: "Kolmodin, Theodore J."
Race:
Date of birth:
Date of death: 8/29/2000
Cause of death: "COMPLICATIONS OF ACUTE ETHANOL WITHDRAWAL, CHRONIC ALCOHOLISM"
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: SCI
Name: "Davis, Lester"
Race: black
Date of birth: 8/30/1953
Date of death: 8/12/2000
Cause of death: ATHEROSCLEROTIC HEART DISEASE
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: GANDER HILL
Name: "Reed, George Michael"
Race: white
Date of birth: 7/11/1952
Date of death: 6/22/2000
Cause of death: "EXSANGUINATION DUE TO EROSION OF A BRANCH OF THE LEFT
PULMONARY ARTERY DUE TO SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA OF THE UPPER LOBE OF
THE LEFT LUNG WITH NECROSIS, CAVITATION, AND METASTASIS TO THE
PANCREAS, KIDNEYS, AND LYMPH NODES; OTHER SIGNIF: TOBACCO USE"
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: MORRIS
Name: "Corbin, Edwin"
Race: black
Date of birth: 1/15/1957
Date of death: 4/25/2000
Cause of death:
Manner of death: NATURAL
Prison: DCC
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