Juan Salgado Mendoza
Juan Salgado Mendoza, 53, was held at Cook County Jail in Chicago and was taken to Stroger Hospital on April 13, 2020, with COVID-19, where he died on April 20. The Cook County Sheriff's Office said the cause of death was pending autopsy. The sheriff's office's later report attributed his death to acute hypoxic respiratory failure due to COVID-19, with morbid obesity as a contributing condition, and recorded the manner of death as natural.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Cook County Sheriff's Office reported the death as natural causes from COVID-19, with morbid obesity as a contributing condition.
Reported by: Cook County Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.