New Braunfels, Texas Man Commits Suicide at Tom Bowles Detention Center in Maverick County
By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., 2020
An unidentified male from New Braunfels, Texas has passed away after being found unconscious in his detention cell in the Tom Bowles Detention Center in Eagle Pass, Maverick County, Texas after allegedly attempting to commit suicide on Thursday, March 12, 2020 with part of a bedsheet attached to the mattress in his cell, announced Maverick County Sheriff Tom Schmerber.Sheriff Schmerber stated that Detention Center guards found the male individual unconscious in his cell while checking all prisoners at approximately 9:30 p,m,. The male detainee was rushed to the Fort Duncan Regional Medical Center by ambulance, but the detainee was later pronounced deceased at the hospital emergency room. Maverick County Justice of the Peace Jeannie Smith pronounced the male detainee deceased.
Sheriff Schmerber noted the deceased had been arrested at the Eagle Pass Port of Entry upon attempting to enter the United States from Mexico on March 10, 2020 due to an outstanding warrant of arrest from New Braunfels, Comal County, Texas.
The Texas Rangers have taken over the investigation of the alleged suicide of the male detainee from New Braunfels, Texas. The case is under investigation.
The name of the deceased has not been publicly released because his family or next of kin have not been notified.
