RALEIGH
Dec 15, 2016
Safekeeper Donnie Ward #1523340 was found unresponsive in his cell just after midnight Thursday morning at Central Prison. Corrections and medical staff initiated CPR, but Ward was later declared dead, the result of an apparent suicide.
The State Capitol Police Department is investigating the death.
Ward, 41, was being held at Central Prison as a safekeeper, pre-trial detainee. The Caldwell County man was awaiting trial on murder charges for the November 2015 shooting death of Eleuterio Vasquez Petrez