Distraught Sandra Bland Killed Herself (autopsy, eyewitnesses, video)

Jul 24, 2015

A very distraught Sandra Bland killed herself in an empty Texas jail cell built to house a handful of prisoners at one time. 

The only inmate in that unit when she was being detained there on July 10th, a down-in-the-dumps Bland later used a plastic trash bag to hang herself with. Presumably after spending days in custody without raising enough money to post bail.

The coroner further found no suspicious marks on the dead prisoner to suggest anything other than self-asphyxiation, and allegedly also discovered that Sandra Bland had ingested a substantial quantity of marijuana sometime before her death by suicide.

If the latter is true, it could account for her mounting despair and discomfort while detained. And, moreover, drug possession itself may explain why Bland was reluctant to leave her vehicle during the traffic stop that got the “extremely combative” woman arrested in the first place.

The less-than-model suspect unfortunately clashed with a less-than-model cop and, during her subsequent incarceration for wrestling with the hotheaded patrolman, her already volatile frame of mind continued to steadily deteriorate, according to a fellow inmate:

"She was crying and I could barely understand her, and I was like, ‘It'll be okay, don’t cry. It’ll be all right, you can’t be in here forever,’” said fellow detainee Alexandra Pyle in an interview with ABC’s Houston affiliate this week.

Pyle too was being jailed on a motor vehicle-related issue (unpaid parking tickets) and she says the two conversed in the days leading up to Bland’s apparent decision to end her life and is “positive” it was a suicide not a murder.

"I don't think the guards did anything," Pyle said. "I just know the guards here. They're good guards. They're strict when they need to be, but they're good guards," she added, noting that they wouldn’t have found Sandra Bland so irksome anyway. At least not to the point that she’d be murderously plotted against.

"She wasn't causing a ruckus or anything, so I don't see why the guards would do anything to her. She was quiet."

Shortly before Bland’s controversial arrest this month and cell suicide, she had been very public about battling chronic depression, and equally vocal on Facebook about her anger over recent in-custody killings of black suspects.

Some doubting relatives, however, insist she would “never” have killed herself regardless of how depressed she claimed to be, an assertion that has led to a state and federal investigation into the 28-year-old’s otherwise un-extraordinary death.

In fact, jailhouse suicide attempts have become so commonplace these days that most arrestees are automatically placed on a suicide watch when booked, and then checked on hourly -- which was reportedly the case with Bland as well.

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