Crime

Guilford Sheriff's Office Investigating Second Inmate Suicide In Less Than A Month

By Paul Garber

Published March 1, 2020 at 9:17 PM EST

An inmate in the Guilford County jail has died, the second suicide in a county detention center in less than a month.

36-year old Kent Fulton Gilliland of Julian died Friday following a suicide attempt, Sheriff D.H. Rogers said. The sheriff's office released few details

Gilliland was in jail awaiting court appearances this month on multiple theft-related charges.

His death by suicide is the second at a Guilford jail in less than a month.

Earlier in February, 58-year-old Herbert Junior Wilson died after being hospitalized after authorities said he attempted to hang himself.

Wilson had been jailed on charges of attempted arson and trespassing. He had been incarcerated at the High Point jail.

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Paul Garber

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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Guilford Sheriff's Office Investigating Second Inmate Suicide In Less Than A Month

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