Authorities are investigating after an inmate at Tucker prison died from an apparent suicide Saturday just after 2:46 a.m., said an Arkansas Department of Correction in a press release.
Officials say 25-year-old Christopher Potts was found hanging from the vent in his cell at the unit.
Correctional officers performed life-saving efforts until medical personnel arrived at the scene. Potts was pronounced dead at the unit’s infirmary by the Jefferson County coroner.
Potts was serving an 18-year sentence out of Saline county for commercial burglary, theft by receiving, third-degree escape, firearm possession and drugs.
Pott’s body has been sent to the medical examiner’s office to determine the cause of death.
The Arkansas State Police is investigating the death.
