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Man in prison for rape kills himself in jail cell
BY BILL DRAPER Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A man facing nearly 30 years in prison for raping three women who had advertised on Craigslist's former "erotic services" section apparently committed suicide in his Kansas jail cell, sheriff's officials said Tuesday.
David Lee Gage, 52, of Wichita, was found dead at the Sedgwick County Jail early Monday after another inmate who was headed to breakfast looked through the window to Gage's cell and saw his motionless body, said Maj. Glenn Kurtz of the county sheriff's office.
The office did not immediately say how Gage died except to say that he apparently killed himself.
"There were no warning signals
that we found," Kurtz said. "We're looking at medical files, we're looking at records, and there is nothing to indicate a trigger or warning sign that we could have seen."
Gage had pleaded for leniency when he was convicted in May, telling a judge he had health issues and didn't think he had long to live.
Assistant prosecutor Justin Edwards said Tuesday that Gage "made a big point that he was thinking his life wouldn't last much longer because of a family history of short life expectancy."
Gage had been awaiting transfer to prison, where he was to spend the next three decades after being convicted of seven felony counts, including rape, aggravated criminal sodomy, aggravated robbery and aggravated assault.
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