ICE first claimed that Cuban Geraldo Lunas Campos died on January 3 after “experiencing medical distress,” The Texas Tribune reported. But later, after The Washington Post reported that the El Paso medical examiner was likely to determine Lunas Campos’ death a homicide, ICE came up with a new story: that their prisoner had “died after attempting suicide and ICE staff attempted to save him.”
Now the El Paso medical examiner has indeed ruled that Lunas Campos’ death was a homicide. He died of “‘asphyxia due to neck and torso compression,’ according to the autopsy report, meaning that he couldn’t breathe because of pressure on his neck and chest,” The Tribune said. The autopsy also reportedly found that Lunas Campos became “unresponsive while being physically restrained by law enforcement.”
