Local News in Brief : Lewd Conduct Suspect Hangs Himself in Jail
An Encino man hanged himself in a jail cell two hours after he was arrested on suspicion of lewd conduct, Los Angeles police said Thursday.
Edwardo Marin, 33, died at Northridge Hospital at 10:45 p.m. Wednesday, about an hour after he was found collapsed next to a bed in his cell at the West Valley Division jail, police said.
Police said he was in a cell alone when he hanged himself from a bedpost using his shoelaces.
Prisoners in other cells alerted guards, police said. When officers arrived, they found Marin still breathing, but efforts to revive him there and later at the hospital were unsuccessful.
Marin was arrested at 7:30 p.m. after two women flagged down a patrol car in the 20200 block of Sherman Way in Canoga Park and reported that he had exposed himself, police said. The officer helped the women make a citizen’s arrest of Marin.
Police said belts, but not shoelaces, are taken from inmates before they are jailed.
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