On Tuesday, Jose Humberto Lara Pinda was charged with first-degree murder and booked into to the Wake County Detention Center.
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Pineda was being held in a single-occupancy cell. Later that day, Pineda was found unresponsive in his cell from self-inflicted injuries.
Emergency medical and life-saving procedures were performed by Wake County Detention Center officers, medical staff, and Raleigh police.
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Wake County EMS responded and transported him to Wake Medical Center. On Wednesday, officials were notified that Pineda had died.
This incident is under investigation.
On Thursday, a teen charged with murder in Durham killed herself inside her Durham County Jail cell. Read more about that here.
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