September 1, 2010
Gary Davidson
Public Information Officer

JAIL INMATE DIES AFTER HANGING 

A jail inmate found hanging Sunday night in his cell from his bed sheet has died. Christopher Jodon, who was being housed at the Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach while awaiting trial on a murder charge, died Wednesday morning.

The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office arrested the 44-year-old Jodon last month, accusing him of stabbing his former girlfriend -- Jackie Miller -- to death after disabling her car by ramming it along I-4 near Lake Helen. Jodon was being housed in a segregation unit at the jail, where corrections officers checked on him every 15 minutes. He was observed by corrections officers to be in good condition when he was checked at 6:16 p.m. on Sunday evening. But during the next check at 6:31 p.m., corrections officers found Jodon hanging from a bed sheet that had been wrapped around a mirror in his cell. Corrections officers cut the bed sheet and began performing CPR on Jodon, who had a weak pulse but was unresponsive. Paramedics quickly arrived to take over resuscitation efforts, and then Jodon was transported by EVAC ambulance to the Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach.

Jodon was pronounced dead at the hospital at approximately 10:30 a.m. The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office is investigating.