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Two inmates in the High Point jail have died over the last few weeks

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An inmate at High Point's jail has died. This is the second such incident in less than three weeks. 

The Guilford County Sheriff's Office says 52-year-old William Easterling was found unresponsive in his cell on September 29. He was taken to High Point Regional Hospital, where he died later that day.

Easterling had been arrested in Davidson County and returned to High Point where he faced minor charges.

In a release, Sheriff Danny Rogers says that Easterling appears to have committed suicide, but an investigation is ongoing.

Earlier last month, 27-year-old Dakota Stevens was found unresponsive in his High Point Jail cell. He died the next day. The case is under investigation, but foul play is not suspected, the sheriff says.

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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