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.

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