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Lake Co. sheriff releases new details about hunger strike victim

Feb. 2 at 9:34 p.m.

A decorated photo at her funeral Wednesday shows Lyvita Gomes, who died after a hunger strike while in the Lake County jail. (Chris Walker, Chicago Tribune)

Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran, responding to questions about an India native who died after starting a hunger strike in jail, released a timetable of events Thursday to show how Lyvita Gomes was monitored during her incarceration.

Gomes, 52, a former Delta Air Lines trainer who lived in a Vernon Hills hotel the past few years, died Jan. 3 at Waukegan’s Vista Medical Center East after a 15-day hunger strike in jail, where she had shown signs of mental illness.