A Hamilton County Medical Examiner’s report shows suicide as the cause of death for a 15-year-old boy found death in the Hamilton County Juvenile Detention Center last week.
Austin Dakota Wallace was found July 1 hanged in the center, according to TBI Special-Agent-in-Charge Jerri Powell.
Agent Powell said TBI is investigating the death along with the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office at the request of District Attorney Bill Cox.
Diagrams on the report show three-quarter-inch abrasions around Austin’s neck.
The boy’s birthday would have been this Friday.
Agent Powell said investigators are interviewing detention center employees and inmates and awaiting autopsy and toxicology reports before turning over information to the district attorney’s office.