Jose Aparicio-Becerra
Jose Aparicio-Becerra was held at Santa Rosa Correctional Institution in Florida, where WEAR-TV reports he was found unresponsive in his cell in February 2020 with severe facial and skull injuries. He was taken to a local hospital and died from complications of blunt force trauma. The State Attorney's Office says his cellmate beat him. The Florida Department of Corrections lists his death as a homicide on March 15, 2020, at Reception and Medical Center Main Unit, and the two records give different places and dates.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody. Prosecutors say his cellmate beat him, and the state recorded the death as a homicide from complications of blunt force trauma.
Reported by: State Attorney's Office (outside investigators); Florida Department of Corrections (the agency that held him).