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A man serving a 20-year prison sentence for viciously sexually assaulting and attempting to kill two women in East Hartford a decade ago is believed to have died by suicide just days after allegedly attacking a state correction officer, officials said.

Jaishon Bellamy, 27, of East Hartford was found unresponsive in his cell at MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution on Thursday around 2:30 a.m. when a correction officer was conducting a routine tour of the facility and noticed the window to Bellamy’s cell was obstructed, according to the Connecticut Department of Correction .

The officer called for Bellamy to remove the covering of the window and got no response, DOC officials said. Officers then entered the cell and found him with a b

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