Pickaway County Sheriff Robert Radcliff is reporting that a corrections officer was conducting a routine check of the county jail and found that inmate, Matthew A. Bahr, 36, of Reynoldsburg, OH, had committed suicide by hanging himself with his bedding, Monday morning.
WBEX-WKKJ radio was the first to report the news.
Medics responded while deputies started CPR, but Bahr was pronounced dead at Berger Hospital.
The death is under investigation.