Inmate hangs himself in Mahoning County jail

YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning County sheriff’s and coroner’s offices are investigating the apparent suicide of a 50-year-old county jail inmate.

“It just appears he hung himself using a bedsheet,” Sheriff Jerry Greene said.

The inmate was found at 1:04 p.m. today after sheriff’s deputies last saw him alive at 11:40 a.m., the sheriff said.

Dr. Joseph Ohr, forensic pathologist and deputy coroner, was to perform an autopsy Wednesday morning, said Theresa Valek, a coroner’s investigator, who confirmed the sheriff’s account of the case.

Greene and Valek declined to identify the dead man pending notification of next of kin.