The suspect being held at a Louisiana jail in connection with a brutal sexual assault in Glen Burnie attempted to kill himself, said the St. Charles Parish Sheriff?s Office.
Ronald Lee Moore, 40, used a nylon string from a mesh laundry bag Tuesday to hang himself from an air-conditioning vent in his St. Charles Parish, La., jail cell.
Deputies found Moore about 4 p.m. and administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation, said Capt. Patrick Yoes, spokesman for the sheriff?s office.
Moore was taken to Ochsner Medical Center in Jefferson, La., where he remains in critical condition. He is breathing with the help of a ventilator, Yoes said.
“I wouldn?t want to speculate on his prognosis, but it?s more serious. The question now is whether he?s even going to survive,” he said.
Moore was arrested trying to burglarize a house in Destrehan, La., on Christmas Eve. He gave authorities a fake name, but his identity was discovered a few days later when his fingerprints were checked against a nationwide fingerprint identification system, officials said.
He is wanted in Anne Arundel for allegedly breaking into a woman?s apartment in 1999, sexually assaulting her and shocking her with a cattle prod.
Moore was serving time in prison for burglary when police used DNA in July to link him to the 1999 attack, but he was mistakenly released in November because of an oversight at the Division of Correction Commitment Office.
If Moore survives, the incident is expected to delay his extradition to Maryland, said Sgt. Sara Schriver, Anne Arundel police spokeswoman.
