Autopsy: Accused cop killer was strangled

Published September 19, 2008 4:00am ET



Accused police killer Ronnie White was murdered in his Prince George’s County solitary jail cell in June, Maryland’s chief medical examiner said in a final autopsy report Thursday.

The report confirms initial findings that White, 19, was strangled in his cell with an unknown object — possibly a bedsheet, towel or arm — just two days after he was arrested for allegedly running down and killing police Sgt. Richard Findley with a stolen truck.

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