David Guerreroestrado
David Guerrero-Estrada, a 55-year-old Latino man, died on January 14, 2010, at the Sterling Correctional Facility in Sterling, Colorado, where he was held in the custody of the Colorado Department of Corrections. The Denver Post reported that he was beaten in his cell in January 2010. Prosecutors charged another man with first-degree murder in his death, and that man was later found mentally incompetent and is being evaluated and treated at a state mental health institute. Records compiled by UCLA Law Behind Bars list the manner of his death as homicide.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody. A man held at Sterling Correctional Facility was beaten to death in his cell in January 2010, and another incarcerated man has been charged with first-degree murder and found mentally incompetent.
Reported by: Colorado Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.