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FILE - This is a Aug. 4, 2011 booking photograph provided by the Mississippi Department of Corrections of Jeremy Wayne Manieri, who is charged with killing a Louisiana priest and was found dead Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012 in his cell at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Pearl, Miss. (AP Photo/Mississippi Department of Corrections)
Jeremy Wayne Manieri, 33, was found dead early Thursday in a prison cell with a sheet wrapped around his neck.
Rankin County Coroner Jimmy Roberts tells The Associated Press on Friday that Manieri died from death by hanging.
Manieri was charged with shooting the Rev. Ed Everitt of Hammond, La., in July 2011 at a beach house in Waveland, Miss.
Manieri's attorney, Brian Alexander, has said he was told that Manieri was found in his cell at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Rankin County, east of Jackson.