Beheading Suspect Commits Suicide in Jail: French Police

A delivery company employee who beheaded his boss and then tried to blow up an American-owned industrial gas plant in France this summer, has committed suicide in prison, French police confirmed to NBC News on Wednesday.

Yassin Salhi, 35, had hanged himself on Tuesday, according to France's national police.

Salhi was facing terrorism charges stemming from the brutal attack in June at an Air Products plant in Saint-Quentin Fallavier. French authorities alleged that Salhi, who had a history of radical Islamist ties, took a "selfie" with his victim's decapitated head and sent the image to a friend in Syria.

Lawyer Samia Maktouf, who represents victims of the recent Paris attacks, said Salhi death rules as a suicide will leave victims of terrorism feeling cheated.

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