Deaths in Custody
Died in immigration detentionHeld by ICE

Samuelino Mavinga

40 years old · died December 29, 2019 · Torrance County Detention Facility

Samuelino Mavinga, 40, died on December 29, 2019, while held in immigration detention at the Torrance County Detention Facility. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said he died of cardiac arrest related to septic shock. The official notice gives no further account of his life or of the events before his death, and no other account of his death is on record.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. ICE says he died of cardiac arrest related to septic shock.

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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