KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An inmate was found unresponsive Monday at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth.
Shortly before 8 p.m., emergency medical crews began rendering aid to Sean Evan Thomas Bad Bear, per the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Despite the attempted life-saving measures, he was pronounced dead.
The 33-year-old man came to the facility March 21, 2024, to serve a 10-month sentence for assault by strangulation of an intimate partner/dating partner and crime on a reservation, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
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