Deaths in Custody
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Jose Zarou

56 years old · died November 1, 2004 · Wicomico County Detention Center, Wicomico County, Maryland

Jose Zarou, 56, died on November 1, 2004, while held in immigration detention at the Wicomico County Detention Center in Salisbury, Maryland. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement lists the cause of death as cardiac tamponade, a condition in which fluid builds up around the heart. The agency's listing is the only account of his death in the source, which gives no information about his life or the events leading to it. No other source in the record contests the cause of death as listed by the agency.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. ICE gave the cause as cardiac tamponade, a heart condition, and no source in the record reports another cause.

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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