(KNSI) – The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating the death of a 53-year-old inmate at the Crow Wing County jail.
A press release from the Crow Wing County Sheriff’s Office says Christopher Jerome Endicott was found unresponsive on November 20th. It says lifesaving measures were taken as soon as Endicott was discovered but were ultimately not successful.
Endicott was being held at the jail on a warrant from the Department of Corrections. He was a former principal at Century Middle School in Lakeville.
Endicott was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison in 2019 for burglary, identity theft, and stalking after allegedly hacking into the database of a neighboring school district and obtaining both financial and personal information on employees and their families because he was in “financial ruin.” Court documents say Endicott admitted he spent the family “down to nothing” and “didn’t see a way out.” Endicott was also accused of burglarizing a neighbor’s house and stalking the Apple Valley police chief.
It’s not clear why Endicott was out of prison or what the warrant was for.
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