Man Dies in Custody After Confessing to Child Assault

0:00It's April 17th. This is Hartford News Today, powered by AI. I'm Cory with the story. A 33-year-old man named Segundo Ronaldo Guaranda Gamboi died in his cell at the New Haven Correctional Center. He was locked up on charges of sexually assaulting a minor. Guards found him unresponsive around 8 a.m. on Thursday during a routine check with a betchy tied around his neck and fastened to the cell. Door. He was alone. Half-cut him down right away and started life-saving steps until an ambulance got there. They rushed him to a nearby hospital, but he was pronounced dead at 8.37 a.m. Guaranda Gamboi had been held on a $250,000 bond since his arrest by New Haven police back on August 13th, 20. 25. He pleaded not guilty to first-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a child. The case stemmed from a report at Yale New Haven Hospital's Pediatric Unit about an

1:00assault on a kid in the same building where he lived. Police say detectives from the Special Victims Unit dug into it and learned the alleged incident happened days earlier. According to them, he confessed to the act before they took him in. Now the state office of the Inspector General and Connecticut State Police are probing the in-custody death. The chief medical examiner will figure out the exact cause, so we'll have to wait for those details to drop.