Remember, trouble strikes in threes:
A 62-year-old man held on aggravated assault charges apparently hanged himself early Sunday at a Far South Side police lockup.
It was the second apparent suicide at the facility in four days. A man charged with murdering an Aldi security guard hanged himself in the same lockup Thursday.
Police said the man found Sunday — identified by the Cook County medical examiner’s office as 62-year-old Melvin C. Woods Jr. — was taken into custody shortly after midnight on aggravated assault charges.
Woods was found about 1:20 a.m. hanging in a cell in the Calumet District police station at 727 E. 111th St., police said. He apparently hanged himself with his underwear.
On the bright side, the lockup is getting extra good at doing those "unusual occurnace" reports.