Pedro Arriago-Santoya
Pedro Arriago-Santoya, 44, died in July 2019 while held at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, an immigration detention facility. Georgia Public Broadcasting reported, citing ICE mortality data, that he complained of pain to medical staff on July 20, 2019, and was taken to hospitals in Cuthbert and then Columbus, where he died after two heart attacks and multiple organ failure. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement gives the date of death as July 24, 2019, and attributes it to valvular heart disease with cardiomegaly and hepatic cirrhosis. The two accounts differ on the cause of death.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness (neglect alleged). ICE's death record attributes the death to valvular heart disease, cardiomegaly and hepatic cirrhosis, and a Georgia Public Broadcasting account citing ICE data says he complained of pain to medical staff before two heart attacks and multiple organ failure.
Reported by: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (the agency that held him); Georgia Public Broadcasting (reporters).