An inmate was found dead at the Sumter County Detention Center early Monday morning of an apparent suicide.
Corrections staff members found 23-year-old Hasan Campbell hanging in his cell shortly after 6 a.m. and emergency medical services crews were called. Detention staff and personnel from WellPath Healthcare, Sumter County Fire Rescue and American Medical Response all performed life-saving efforts on Campbell to no avail. He was pronounced dead at the detention center and an investigation is being conducted by both the sheriff’s office and the medical examiner’s office, a sheriff’s office report states.
Campbell was being held on charges of robbery without a firearm or weapon, hit and run, battery, fleeing and eluding law enforcement and possession of marijuana not more than 20 grams. His bond had been set at $44,000.
Campbell, of Davie, was arrested Jan. 18 after allegedly attempting to rob the Circle K at 4410 W Hwy. 26 in Ocala and then fleeing on Interstate 75. A short time later, Marion County sheriff’s deputies spotted him traveling on the freeway and pursued his vehicle into Sumter County, where it was disabled by Sumter County sheriff’s deputies using stop sticks. He was then taken into custody without incident.
After being read his rights by a Marion County sheriff’s Major Crimes detective, Campbell asked for an attorney and then spontaneously used profanity in describing himself and said he was trying to meet up with a relative to go to a strip club. And he then stated that he was just trying to figure himself out and that his motive was to try to prove to his mother that he was “independent” and could take care of himself, a Marion County Sheriff’s Office report states.