A Woody Creek woman who recently had been found incompetent to stand trial after a long history of theft and drunken driving died by suicide Sunday nigh inside the Pitkin County Jail, an official said Monday.
Jillian White, 64, was discovered in her cell at 6:18 p.m. Sunday “unconscious, unresponsive,” according to a news release from the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office.
She was last checked on between 15 minutes and 30 minutes before, when a jail deputy saw her making a phone call, Pitkin County Sheriff Joe DiSalvo said Monday. Deputies performed CPR and used a defibrillator in an attempt to revive White, but they were not successful, the news release states.
“My worst fear is to lose a deputy or an inmate,” DiSalvo said late Sunday night. “And now we’ve lost an inmate.”
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