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Jail Death Under Investigation (wtok.com)
Death of Choctaw Activist Rexdale Henry Prompts Private Autopsy (Jackson Free Press)
Death of Choctaw Activist Rexdale Henry Prompts Private Autopsy (Jackson Free Press)
more at the linksA private autopsy is under way for Rexdale W. Henry, a 53-year-old man found dead inside the Neshoba County Jail in Philadelphia, Miss., on July 14.
According to WTOK, detention officers found Henry's body around 10 a.m.; he was last seen alive 30 minutes earlier. The state crime lab in Jackson conducted an autopsy and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is looking into the case.
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Henry, a member of the Choctaw tribe and a lifelong community activist, coached stickball and had been a candidate for the Choctaw Tribal Council from Bogue Chitto the week before his arrest on July 9 for failure to pay a fine.
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