Murder suspect found dead in custody
Posted Jul 26, 2011 05:45:18 AM.
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The man who died at the Burnside Jail this week was a suspect in a 2009 Beaverbank Road murder.
Metro Halifax reports Kevin Glen Downing, 48, had been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Rose Marie Brown, who was found dead in an apartment in November of 2009.
Downing was due in court in January.
He was found early Monday morning in a single cell by guards doing routine checks.
A cause of death has not been released but justice officials say foul play is not suspected.
The Department of Justice has launched an internal review.
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