Posted on 01/19/2012 5:05:26 PM PST by ColdOne
A 20-year-old maintenance worker who this week pleaded guilty to molesting and killing a 7-year-old girl was found dead of an apparent suicide in his prison cell Thursday, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections.
Ryan Brunn was found unresponsive at 4:15 p.m. at the state prison in Jackson, said spokeswoman Kristen Stancil. Brunn was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 5:37 p.m., Stancil said in an email to The Associated Press. She gave no other details about how he died.
Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents out of Milledgeville were investigating, said agency spokesman John Bankhead. An autopsy will likely be done Friday at the agency's medical examiner's office in Decatur, he said.
Brunn pleaded guilty on Tuesday to Jorelys Rivera's Dec. 2 killing at a north Georgia apartment complex where she lived and he had worked for about a month.
The girl was reported missing after she left the complex's playground to retrieve sodas at her apartment for her friends. Brunn described in detail to the court how he lured the girl into a vacant apartment and sexually assaulted her. He said he was afraid she would tell her parents so he "cut her." When she didn't die right away, he beat and stabbed her.
Then he put her body in a garbage bag and dumped it in a trash compactor at the complex where it was found.
After his guilty plea, a judge immediately sentenced him to life in prison without parole. Brunn also apologized to the girl's family members who sobbed in the front row of the courtroom when he graphically described how he killed her.
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Well now Hell has the expense of taking care of him for all Eternity.
Natural causes?
Would have preferred he’d committed suicide before assaulting and killing his victim!
So it could be a suicide or a “suicide” via falling down a flight of shiv stabs and the officials are sweeping it under. Meh, if it is the later he had it coming
I wish more "life" sentences for people like this worked out to just a few weeks.
Y’all trying to cheer me up?
Look at the bright side-He will not be able to kill another child
“Natural causes?”
Yeah he naturally stabbed himself in the back several times. </sarc>
There's another side?
Precisely...
Accidents happen.
AMF
All’s well that ends well....
There is no bright side to the horrific abuse and murder of an innocent child. At best all that can be said is at least he won’t abuse and kill any more. Unfortunately, this will not end the horrific abuse and/or death of children at the hands of people like this.
LOL, that’s terrific!
A beam, rope and stool should be standard equipment in all cells. Go ahead and do us all a favor!
Lol, see now I can forgive him.
How he managed to duct tape that plastic bag over his
head with his hands tied behind his back like that is a mystery to us.
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