Deaths in Custody
Died in immigration detentionHeld by ICE

Saul Enrique Banegas-Guzman

46 years old · died January 22, 2016 · Jena/LaSalle Detention Facility, Rapides Parish, Louisiana

Saul Enrique Banegas-Guzman, 46, died on January 22, 2016, while held in immigration detention at the Jena/LaSalle Detention Facility in Alexandria, Louisiana. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement listed the cause of death as a myocardial infarction, a heart attack. The agency's account is the only one recorded here, and no other accounts of his death or his life have been found to confirm or dispute it.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. ICE said he died of a myocardial infarction (heart attack).

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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