Raina Autumn DeMarrias-Renville, 28

Watertown, South Dakota
May 14, 2016

Agencies: Codington County Sheriff's Office South Dakota | Codington County Regional Detention Center South Dakota

Cause of death: Not Yet Known


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Last updated: almost 4 years ago

Overview

An inmate at the Codington County Detention Center is dead in an apparent suicide.

Sheriff Toby Wishard says 28 year-old Raina Autumn Demarrias of Lake Norden was found hanging in her cell on Saturday.

She was taken to Prairie Lakes Hospital by ambulance where she was pronounced dead.

Demarrias was being held without bond on a Hamlin County charge of Aggravated Assault on an Officer stemming from the alleged stabbing of a Lake Norden police officer on March 5th.

Demarrias had been in custody since her arrest.

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