HOMEWOOD, Ala. -- Prosecutors say video shows 18-year-old Kindra Chapman used a sheet to hang herself at a suburban Birmingham jail after she was arrested on robbery charges.
Jefferson County District Attorney Brandon Falls said in a statement Thursday that his office has reviewed video, investigative reports and more in Chapman's death at the Homewood City Jail.
Falls says video shows Chapman becoming agitated when she was alone in a cell July 14. Falls says video shows Chapman tied a sheet to a support rail and hanged herself. Falls says officers returning an inmate from court to the cell saw Chapman and immediately tried resuscitating her.
Attorneys representing Chapman's family told Al.com her relatives acknowledge the death was a suicide, but they're investigating how it happened while she was in custody.