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Samuelino Pitchout Mavinga

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

Samuelino Pitchout Mavinga, 40, was a native of Angola and a citizen of France, according to an American Immigration Council account. He died on December 29, 2019, while in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, and ICE said he died of cardiac arrest related to septic shock. ICE's account places his death at the Torrance County Detention Facility. The American Immigration Council account says he had been held for several weeks at the Otero County Processing Center in Chaparral after transfer from Customs and Border Protection custody, and that he died at a hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said 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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