Rene Cantu
Rene Cantu, 60, died on August 26, 2021 at Hospital Galveston, where he had been taken from the Hughes Unit in Gatesville while in Texas Department of Criminal Justice custody. TDCJ says he tested positive for COVID-19 on August 5, 2021, and that a physician's mortality review found COVID-19 was the immediate cause of death. No autopsy was performed. The Texas Office of the Attorney General's custodial death report also lists his death at the hospital in Galveston County, though it gives no cause.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. TDCJ says Rene Cantu tested positive for COVID-19 on August 5, 2021, and a physician mortality review determined COVID-19 was the immediate cause of death; no autopsy was performed.
Reported by: TDCJ (the agency that held him); Texas Office of the Attorney General custodial death report.
Custody: Serving a sentence.