A Washington County inmate died Friday after taking a suicidal leap inside the jail in Stillwater.

Richard Bild, who was arrested last week after crashing his 2002 Pontiac Grand Am into his house in Forest Lake and setting his garage on fire, jumped from the upper tier of one of the jail’s housing units about 12:40 p.m. and fell two stories, landing on the floor, said Jail Commander Roger Heinen. Bild was 45.

Jail staff rendered emergency medical aid and paramedics from Lakeview Emergency Medical Services arrived and took Bild to Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Heinen said. He died at 5:05 p.m.

Friends said Bild had threatened to kill himself, but Heinen said he was not on “suicide watch” or on lockdown at the jail. He said Bild’s death is still under investigation.

Bild was charged Wednesday with first-degree arson, first-degree damage to property, a felony charge of terroristic threats and misdemeanor domestic assault.

At about 11:45 a.m. Tuesday, police in Forest Lake were dispatched to a domestic disturbance at a residence in the 9700 block of 203rd Street North. Bild’s wife, identified by law enforcement Tuesday as his girlfriend, was at the house, along with another person.

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Third body recovered from scene of fatal plane crash in Cottage Grove Bild’s wife called 911 to report that her husband had driven “through the lower porch area of the house and then through a wall and into the living space of the home, causing substantial damage to the home,” the complaint states.

No one was injured during the incident.

Bild then exited the car, yelled at his wife and another person and barricaded himself in the garage, according to the complaint. “Officers took up positions around the garage and could hear Bild yelling and items being broken inside the garage, and they saw Bild punch a hole in one of the garage doors,” the complaint states.

In September 2017, another Washington County jail inmate died at Regions from injuries he incurred after attempting suicide by hanging, Heinen said.