Providence high school basketball coach who was accused of teen sex assault kills himself

6-15-15 Rhode Island:

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island — A longtime high school basketball coach charged last week with sexually assaulting a teenage boy killed himself on Monday just hours after defending himself in an email to a newspaper.

Tyrone Dale, who was 45 years old, hanged himself in Pawtucket on Monday evening and was pronounced dead at a hospital, Providence police said.

Dale had served as a part-time seasonal employee of the Providence public schools and the Providence recreation department. He coached girls' basketball at the Juanita Sanchez Educational Complex. He also coached at the West End Recreation Center.

Dale was charged with sexual assault on Friday. A 15-year-old boy said Dale pulled his shorts down and fondled him at the recreation center last month, according to a police report. The boy told police he felt nervous and intimidated and recorded the sexual assault on his cellphone, the report said.

Convicted child molester hangs himself in ACI cell

Note comments by lawyer, posted to this suicide.

9-28-2010 Rhode Island:

CRANSTON — A 52-year-old convicted child molester hanged himself Friday in his cell in the Adult Correctional Institutions’ intake center, a department spokeswoman said Monday.

The man was not identified because the case is still under investigation by state police, Corrections Department spokeswoman Tracey E. Zeckhausen said. State police could not be reached Monday afternoon for comment on the status of their investigation.

The man was initially classified as a suicide risk after he was brought to the intake center on Sept. 16, Zeckhausen said. That classification was lifted after Corrections Department psychiatrists examined him and said they felt he was no longer a threat to himself, she said. The most recent visit with him had been Friday morning, the day he died.

The man was found hanged by a bed sheet in his single-occupant cell at around 2:30 p.m., Zeckhausen said.

He had been convicted of first-degree child molestation and had been in the prison part of the ACI from May 2002, until May 2009, when he was released on probation. He was scheduled to be on probation until 2027, Zeckhausen said.

RI- Inmate found dead in cell

6-26-2009 Rhode Island:

CRANSTON, R.I. - Authorities are investigating the apparent suicide of a man being held at the Rhode Island state prison in Cranston.

A spokeswoman for the Adult Correctional Institutions tells The Providence Journal that Donald Smith, 25, of Westerly, was found hanging in his cell in the Intake Service Center around 8:50 p.m. Wednesday.

He was pronounced dead at Rhode Island Hospital.

Smith had been arrested by the Woonsocket police Sunday for failing to register as a sex offender. He had previously served a sentence after being convicted of multiple counts of child molestation.

The ACI's investigations unit and the state police are investigating. ..Source.. by MyFox Boston.com