EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Victor Manuel Diaz, the 36-year-old migrant from Nicaragua who died at Camp East Montana in January, told medical staff of his previous diagnosis for tuberculosis. He was later found unresponsive with a ligature around his neck, according to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement report obtained by KTSM 9 News.
His family’s lawyer confirmed that he has the results of a second autopsy done on Diaz’s body, noting “one huge glaring discrepancy” between the second autopsy and the one done at William Beaumont Medical Center in Fort Bliss.
3rd detainee dies at Camp East Montana
As KTSM previously reported, Diaz died on Jan. 14 after security staff found him “unconscious and unresponsive.” Diaz was the second detainee to die in January, following the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos, a 55-year-old Cuban migrant whose death was ruled a homicide by the El Paso County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Autopsy: Cuban man detained at Camp East Montana died of asphyxia; manner ruled homicide
According to the report, at around 7 a.m. on Jan. 14, Diaz reported harassment by other detainees to custody staff and he was taken to a medical holding room, pending an interview.
Medical staff documented Diaz’s “disheveled appearance, depressed mood, flat affect, low speech, face mask use,” read the report. Diaz denied suicidal and homicidal thoughts and hallucinations…