The Onondaga County Sheriff's Office is investigating the death of an inmate at the Justice Center.

They say shortly before 9 p.m. Thursday night, a deputy responded to 28-year-old Christopher Duxbury's cell and found him unconscious and unresponsive.

The medical staff at the Justice Center provided him with emergency care but he was later pronounced dead at the Hospital.

Duxbury was being held at the Justice Center on burglary-related charges. He had been arrested in December.

The cause of his death remains under investigation