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Andrea Nicole Garcia

31 years old · died September 22, 2024 · Bexar County Adult Detention Center, Bexar County, Texas

Andrea Nicole Garcia, 31, died on September 22, 2024, while held at the Bexar County Jail in San Antonio, Texas. The Bexar County Sheriff's Office said she had a medical episode that was made worse by detoxing conditions, and it attributed the death to that preliminary account. Other people held in the booking section alerted deputies around 3 a.m. that she did not look well, and she was pronounced dead at 3:45 a.m. The medical examiner has not yet ruled on the cause and manner of death, and the constable's office and the jail's internal affairs unit are investigating.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Bexar County Sheriff's Office said she had a medical episode worsened by detox conditions, and the medical examiner has not yet ruled on the cause.

Reported by: Bexar County Sheriff's Office (the agency that held her). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held her.

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