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As Ryan Wilson hanged from a noose fashioned from a bedsheet and tethered to his jail cell’s light fixture last November, a corrections officer at the Manhattan Detention Complex implored his boss to open the door, court documents said.
But Capt. Rebecca Hillman stalled and claimed Wilson, 29, was “playing” and faking it, according to prosecutors. Wilson, who battled depression and anxiety, had warned Hillman of his plans to kill himself, but she didn’t take him seriously.
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