Javier Solis Flores
Javier Solis Flores, 19, was a man from Spring Valley. Deputies found him gravely injured in his cell at the South Bay Detention Facility in Chula Vista on September 9, 2020, and he was taken to a hospital, where he died on September 11. An autopsy determined the death was a homicide from blunt force trauma to the head, according to the San Diego County Sheriff's Department. In April 2021, three men pleaded not guilty to murder in connection with his death, and the motive has not been disclosed.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody. The sheriff's department and an autopsy attribute the death to blunt force trauma to the head from a homicide, and three men have pleaded not guilty to murder in connection with it.
Reported by: San Diego County Sheriff's Department (the agency that held him); autopsy; news reports.