ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - Authorities in western North Carolina say a jail inmate is dead after being found unresponsive on his bed at dawn.
The Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office says 40-year-old Christopher Coe Boyd Jr. of Black Mountain was pronounced dead Monday after the early-morning discovery. He was being held for three days as part of his probation on a felony conviction that deputies didn’t describe.
Sheriff’s spokeswoman Natalie Bailey said in an email that a jailer checked on Boyd around 6 a.m. after he didn’t come out of his cell for breakfast. Jail staff and paramedics tried to revive Boyd without success.
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