The death of a man held at a federal detention camp in Texas may be investigated as a homicide after a medical examiner found the preliminary cause to be “asphyxia due to neck and chest compression”.
Geraldo Lunas Campos, a 55-year-old Cuban national arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in July last year, was pronounced dead on 3 January at Camp East Montana, a tent facility at Fort Bliss military base in El Paso.
The Department of Homeland Security had previously labelled Lunas Campos one of the “worst of the worst”, citing convictions for child sexual abuse, possession of a firearm and aggravated assault. ICE, in a press release, claimed he died after “experiencing medical distress” and said his cause of death was under investigation.
