A 19-year-old woman who tried to commit suicide in the Bexar County Jail died Friday, sheriff's officials said. Ashanti Taylor died at Downtown Baptist Hospital. Taylor had been on life support since late Saturday night, when deputies found her hanging from a bed sheet in solitary confinement. Taylor was booked into the jail July 6 on a charge of terroristic threat on family and was being held on $800 bond. The Bexar County Sheriff's Office has reported the death to the Texas Commission on Jail Standards. The investigation will be handled as a custodial death, officials said.
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