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Ky. CO saves inmate from committing suicide

Joseph Cambron, charged with the murder of 12-year-old Ray Etheridge, tried to hang himself in his jail cell

By C1 Staff

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — An inmate at the Metro Corrections Facility was prevented from hanging himself by staff doing their regular rounds.

The Courier-Journal reports that Joseph Cambron, charged with the murder of 12-year-old Ray Etheridge, tried to hang himself in his jail cell.

An officer making a routine security check found the window to Cambron’s single, private cell covered with toilet paper. When he got no response from within, the officer entered the cell to find a towel wrapped around the inmate’s neck.

Cambron was taken down, unharmed, and moved to a more heavily monitored single cell in the medical unit.