Andre Ortiz
Andre Ortiz died at the Coffield Unit, a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison in Anderson County. The Texas Office of the Attorney General's custodial death report gives the date of death as August 2, 2022. The Marshall Project, reporting in January 2023 from prison officials' account, says he died after a fire just outside his cell and places the death in July 2022, less than a week after James Salazar's death. The sources differ on the date, and no cause or manner of death is given in either.
Cause of death, as reported: Cause not yet determined. Prison officials said he died after a fire just outside his cell at the Coffield Unit, and no cause or manner of death was given.
Reported by: prison officials. The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.