No Autopsy for 'Wrongly Accused' Pro-Life January 6 Protester Who Died Suddenly in Federal Custody

Jenny Hay, Taylor Breeden : Oct 3, 2024
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Mark Reno died in federal custody 28 days after his arrest for allegedly shooting at a federal building. There is no evidence that anyone had fired at the building.

[LifeSiteNews.com] No autopsy was performed after a January 6 protester wrongly accused of shooting at a federal building died unexpectedly in custody. (Screengrab image: via LifeSiteNews /WBIR)

On August 15, 2022, a Tennessee Catholic named Mark Reno died as federal prisoner at Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center in Danville, Kentucky. He had been arrested on July 18, 2022 for allegedly shooting at a federal building on July 3 although no bullets, fragments, or casings were ever found. According to an affidavit written by an FBI agent, the FBI had been surveilling Reno for months, beginning after he told an undercover investigator at a pro-life event that he had participated in the protest at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

After he died, the Justice Department accused Reno of an unsolved crime: the arson of Knoxville's Planned Parenthood.

Although he was a Tennessee resident, Reno was detained at Laurel County Correctional Center in London, Boyle County, Kentucky.

According to his death certificate, Reno died from complications due to a bleeding ulcer in the first part of his small intestine (duodenal ulcer with hemorrhage). Contributing conditions included hypertension, diabetes, colonic necrosis, metabolic acidosis, hyperkalemia, and renal failure. He did not receive an autopsy.

Reno's daughter told us that she personally delivered Reno's medication for hypertension to US Marshals at Reno's detention hearing. Reno later told her he never received any doses of this medication.

We spoke to the coroner of Boyle County, Dr. Eric Guerrant, who confirmed that Reno did not receive an autopsy. The reason given was that he died under the care of a physician... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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