Died in custody
Name not reported
A person held in state custody died on December 23, 2023, while a patient at Charleston Area Medical Center Memorial Hospital in West Virginia. A Department of Homeland Security spokesman, Andy Malinoski, attributed the death to natural causes. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reported that the death was not included in the state's 2023 regional jail data it had been given.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. Andy Malinoski, a Department of Homeland Security spokesman, attributed the death to natural causes.
Reported by: Andy Malinoski, Department of Homeland Security spokesman (the agency that held them). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held them.