CHARLESTON, W.Va.—A West Virginia man charged with trying to kill his sister, who recently awakened from a two-year coma and identified him as her attacker, has died less than a week after his arrest, authorities said Friday.
Daniel J. Palmer III of Cottageville was pronounced dead Thursday at a Charleston hospital, a day after he was taken there following an evaluation by jail medical staff, the state Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Division of Corrections, said in a news release.
The statement didn’t indicate a cause of death and a spokeswoman for Department of Health and Human Resources, which oversees the state medical examiner’s office, said state law only allows the agency to release autopsy information to relatives and law enforcement….