BATON ROUGE - A 25-year-old man was found dead in the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison days before he was supposed to be extradited to another state. 

The sheriff's office said Evanellis Clarke was found Tuesday morning having hanged himself with a shirt tied around cell bars.

Clarke was booked into the facility Nov. 23 after he was arrested by LSU Police officers as a fugitive from Georgia. Documents show that he was wanted for bench warrants in connection to terroristic threats that were made in 2021. An arrest warrant says that Clarke told a man that he was going to kill him, left, and then came back with a BB gun that looked like a rifle. 

During a court appearance Nov. 26 related to that arrest, Clarke reportedly fought several deputies while he was being placed in a cell and then took a deputy's taser. He was booked for an additional charge for disarming a peace officer. 

One week later, he was dead. A detective who attended Clarke's autopsy said the pathologist relayed that the death was a suicide, according to a sheriff's office report. The coroner's office has not publicly released the cause or manner of death. 

Deputies told WBRZ that before Clarke's death he was being treated by medical personnel for mental health problems.