Report: Medical examiner believes death of ICE detainee arrested in Upstate NY was homicide

The death of a 55-year-old man who died earlier this month at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention camp in Texas could be classified as a homicide, the Washington Post is reporting.

Geraldo Lunas Campos died Jan. 3 at Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas, according to a news release from ICE dated Jan. 9. The release said that Campos had been “experiencing medical distress” and his death was under investigation.

ICE said that Lunas Campos, from Cuba, had been living in Rochester for several years and was arrested on July 14 during a planned enforcement operation in the Western New York city. ICE stated that he had been convicted of multiple crimes between 1998 and 2009, listing 10 convictions, including sexual contact with a child under 11, unlawful possession of a weapon during a robbery, criminal possession of a weapon, and several others…

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