Rosendo Lopez
Rosendo Lopez, 44, was held at the Orange County Jail in California, where he was pretrial, and was found dead in a single cell in the jail's medical isolation ward on February 7, 2010. His attorney, Deputy Public Defender Linda Hewitt, described him as very quiet, very polite and very calm, someone she never heard swear. He had been seriously ill for some time with diabetes and colon cancer, had been receiving radiation treatment, and had recently contracted pneumonia. The Orange County Sheriff's Department said his death appeared to be from natural causes, and the district attorney's office and the Office of Independent Review are reviewing the in-custody death.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The sheriff's department spokesman said he appeared to have died of natural causes while seriously ill with a terminal illness.
Reported by: Orange County Sheriff's Department spokesman John McDonald (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.