Hector Garcia
Hector Garcia died on August 7, 2019, while held at the Doña Ana County Detention Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico. A civil lawsuit alleges that jail medical staff ignored repeated collapses and signs of internal bleeding and did not call 911, and that he suffered a heart attack in a security van while being taken to the hospital. The lawsuit also alleges that jail staff worked to release him before he died so that his death would not be counted as an in-custody death. The county had not responded to these claims in the reporting.
Cause of death, as reported: Died from neglect by staff (disputed). A civil lawsuit says jail medical staff ignored repeated collapses and signs of internal bleeding, did not call 911, and that he suffered a heart attack during a security-van transport to the hospital.
Reported by: civil lawsuit.
Lawsuit: A civil lawsuit over his death alleges that Doña Ana County Detention Center medical staff ignored repeated collapses and signs of internal bleeding, did not call 911, and sent him by security van to the hospital, where he suffered a heart attack, and no dollar amount is reported.