A resident in the El Dorado Correctional Facility died this morning; the cause is currently unknown.

 60-year-old Luis Diaz was serving a sentence for one count of 1st degree attempted murder and one count of criminal threat from a Sedgwick County incident in 2007.The cause of death is pending further investigation as well as results of an independent autopsy.

 Protocol dictates that when a resident dies in the custody of the Kansas Department of Corrections the death is investigated by the KDOC and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. The investigation is currently on-going.

 The El Dorado Correctional Facility is an all-male facility housing all custody levels. Its current population is 1,734 residents.