(Clarinda, Iowa) – In an update to our previous report, Page County Sheriff Lyle Palmer today (Friday), said the State Medical Examiner’s Office has concluded that an inmate who died at around 7-p.m. on Sept. 3rd, died from natural causes resulting from a medical condition. The inmate was also identified, as 74-year-old Phillip Eugene Holmes, of Clarinda.

On September 3rd, the Page County Sheriff’s Office requested the Clarinda Ambulance Service to the Page County Jail for an adult male inmate with a medical condition. Clarinda Ambulance Service transported the adult male inmate (Phillip Holmes) to the Clarinda Regional Health Center where the man later died. Per Page County Jail policy, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation was contacted as well as a report filed with the State Jail Inspector’s Office.