A Vicksburg man who committed suicide at police headquarters Thursday was on probation for burglary.

Ryan Maddox, 37, 1201 South St., strangled himself with a shackling chain at police headquarters Thursday afternoon, Warren County Coroner Doug Huskey said.

Maddox’s cause of death is listed as suicide by ligature strangulation, according to the autopsy report provided by the State Medical Examiner’s Office.

In 2008, Maddox was convicted of two counts of nonresidential burglary in Hinds County, he was released from prison on probation in 2009, according to the Mississippi Department of Corrections.

Maddox was convicted of auto burglary in 2002 and sentenced by then-Circuit Court Judge Frank Vollor to a suspended seven-year sentence, according to records from the district attorney’s office. The suspended sentence was revoked in 2004 and Maddox was sentenced to serve the seven years, less time off for time served in jail. He was paroled in 2007, the DA’s records show.

Two hours before his death, Maddox was arrested and charged with burglary in the theft of a tire and rim from a shed in the 700 block of National Street, police Capt. Bobby Stewart said.

State law allows for third-time felony offenders to be sentenced under much harsher penalties, and Maddox could have faced a mandatory seven years in prison if convicted of burglary a third time.

Funeral arraignments for Maddox are pending with Jefferson Funeral Home. Attempts to reach the Maddox family were unsuccessful.

In an incomplete obituary, members of the family said Maddox operated a lawn care service and was a member of Mt. Elmo M. B. Church of Hermanville.