Deaths in Custody
Died in immigration detentionHeld by ICE

Alejandro Guevara-Lazaro

21 years old · died August 13, 2007 · El Paso Service Processing Center, El Paso County, Texas

Alejandro Guevara-Lazaro, 21, died on August 13, 2007, while held in immigration detention at the El Paso Service Processing Center in El Paso, Texas. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement lists the cause of death as a ruptured Berry aneurysm of the right middle cerebral artery, a bleed in the brain. Whether he received timely medical attention is not addressed in the agency's account.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. ICE attributed his death to a ruptured Berry aneurysm of the right middle cerebral artery.

Reported by: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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