John A. Johns

How they died

Suicide

John A. Johns used his shirt to hang himself inside a jail cell at the Pennsauken Police Department. He hanged himself 14 minutes after being arrested on outstanding warrants and for threatening his girlfriend, police said. Media reports don't state categorically whether he was booked, so this incident may be outside of FatalEncounters dataset, which does not include individuals after they've been booked into the jail or prison system.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that John A. Johns, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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