Jul 27, 2021 / 05:47 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) Police are investigating the death of a man who appeared to have taken his own life Monday night in the Marion County Jail.
Jail deputies around 9:47 p.m. Monday found 43-year-old Michael Aston unresponsive and not breathing. The deputies began rendering aid to him and called for on-site medical staff and Indianapolis Emergency Medical Services, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday.
Aston was pronounced dead at 10:09 p.m. Preliminary information indicates Aston’s death was a suicide by hanging. The sheriff’s office said Aston was not housed in the suicide housing unit because “he didn’t present with suicidal ideations at or after booking.”
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An inmate at the Marion County Jail died Monday in what appears to be a suicide, the Marion County Sheriff s Office said.
Michael Aston, 43, was found unresponsive and not breathing by jail staff at 9:47 p.m. Monday. Deputies initiated CPR, a spokesperson for the sheriff s office said, and called for both on-site medical staff and Indianapolis Emergency Medical Services.
Emergency workers pronounced Aston deceased at 10:09 p.m. Preliminary information, which is subject to investigation, suggests that the death was a suicide by hanging, the spokesperson said in a prepared statement sent Tuesday.
Aston was not housed in the suicide housing unit because he didn t show signs of suicidal ideations, according to the spokesperson, who said at the time of his death Aston was experiencing substance abuse withdrawal.
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I received my first COVID-19 vaccination on April 7 at the Cornwall Square and at the same time was given an appointment for my second shot at the same location on July 28.
In the meantime the Eastern Ontario Health Unit in its infinite wisdom closed the vaccination clinic in Cornwall Square and moved it to the Benson Centre and at the time did not inform those with second doses booked for the mall location.
I found out through word-of-mouth and asked my pharmacist if my appointment would still be good at the new location and he assured me it would.