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"A 20-year-old Big Sur man who was accused of murdering a taxi driver in Monterey and attempted to hang himself in his jail cell three days later was taken off life support Thursday in a San Jose hospital.\u00A0\"At approximately 9:30 a.m., Joshua Kannon Claypole was taken off of life support and pronounced deceased by medical personnel,\" Monterey County Assistant District Attorney Terry Spitz said.VIDEO: Monterey County jail under investigation after Claypole suicide attemptClaypole's father traveled from Argentina to San Jose on Monday to decide whether to remove Claypole from life support, defense attorney John Klopfenstein said.The day before his jail suicide attempt, Claypole appeared disoriented in court as he pleaded not guilty to murdering taxi cab driver Daniel Garcia Huerta, 44, of Salinas.Huerta was stabbed nearly 30 times in a parking lot at 1178 Del Monte in Monterey on May 1. The Monterey Yellow Cab Company driver was pronounced dead at the scene and Claypole was captured a few hours later, police Lt. Leslie Sonne said.The slaying appears to have been random and unprovoked. Huerta had picked Claypole up outside a Wells Fargo Bank at Crossroads in Carmel, and, for an unknown reason, police said Claypole brutally stabbed the driver inside the taxi when they reached Monterey.Claypole was found hanging from bed sheets in his Monterey County Jail cell, Sheriff's Cmdr. J. Mendoza said.\"Due to the charges and his notoriety, Mr. Claypole was housed in a single-person cell for his protection,\" Mendoza said. \"A deputy conducting a routine health and welfare check discovered him hanging. Lifesaving measures were immediately undertaken by deputies and medical staff.\"The murder suspect was then flown in a helicopter from the jail to a San Jose hospital and placed on life support.Whether the jail had Claypole on suicide watch or not was unclear, and jail officials refused to answer questions from reporters. The Monterey County District Attorney's Office is investigating the jail because of the incident.\u00A0Huerta's body will be flown back to his home country of Mexico to be buried. \u00A0\"My heart is destroyed,\" Huerta's widow, Alma Huerta, said at Claypole's arraignment. \"My husband was a person who dedicated his life, 100 percent, to his work and his family.\"Huerta is survived by his widow and two daughters.\"This heartless person destroyed our lives,\" Alma Huerta said."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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