Died in immigration detentionHeld by ICE
Jose Leonardo Lemus-Rajo
Jose Leonardo Lemus-Rajo, 23, died on April 28, 2016, at Columbia Kendal Hospital in Miami, Florida, while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE attributes his death to acute alcohol withdrawal syndrome due to chronic alcohol dependence, according to the agency's own reporting. That cause is the agency's claim and has not been independently established.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. ICE says he died of acute alcohol withdrawal syndrome due to chronic ethanolism.
Reported by: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.