Deaths in Custody
Died in immigration detentionHeld by ICE

Roberto Martinez Medina

39 years old · died March 11, 2009 · Stewart Detention Center, Muscogee County, Georgia

Roberto Martinez Medina, 39, died on March 11, 2009, while held in immigration detention at the Stewart Detention Center in Columbus, Georgia. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement listed his cause of death as cardiac arrest. No family statements or other accounts of his life or the circumstances of his death are included in the source record.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. ICE attributed the death to cardiac arrest.

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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