Deaths in Custody
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Jose Manuel Azurdia-Hernandez

54 years old · died December 23, 2015 · Adelanto Correctional Facility, San Bernardino County, California

Jose Manuel Azurdia-Hernandez, 54, died on December 23, 2015, while held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Adelanto Correctional Facility in Apple Valley, California. ICE's listing gives the cause of death as a myocardial infarction, or heart attack.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. ICE says he died of a myocardial infarction, and no other account in the record disputes this.

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.

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