Deaths in Custody
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Yimi Alexis Balderramos-Torres

30 years old · died June 30, 2019 · Houston Processing Center, Houston, Texas

Yimi Alexis Balderramos-Torres, 30, died on June 30, 2019, while held in immigration custody at the Houston Contract Detention Facility in Houston, Texas. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said he died of sudden cardiac death associated with biventricular cardiac dilation and classified the death as natural. The available record includes no family statements or other details about his life, and no dispute over the cause of death is recorded.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement recorded the manner of death as natural.

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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