US EditionMedical Examiner Likely to Rule Texas ICE Facility Death a Homicide: Report
Preliminary findings cite asphyxia from neck and chest compression after a struggle involving five guards, with four deaths in ICE custody so far this year, according to The Washington Post.
- On Jan. 15, 2026, an El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner employee told Geraldo Lunas Campos's daughter the death is likely a homicide, listing preliminary cause as asphyxia due to neck and chest compression pending toxicology report and final autopsy.
- On Jan. 3, Lunas Campos was reported dead after refusing to return to his dorm and being placed in segregation at Camp East Montana, where he was held since Sept. 6, 2025, ICE says.
- Santos Jesus Flores, fellow detainee and witness, told The Post he saw five guards struggling with Lunas Campos, who repeatedly said in Spanish, `No puedo respirar.`
- On-Site medical personnel responded immediately, and EMTs declared him deceased after resuscitation attempts; the El Paso County Medical Examiner autopsy and toxicology remained pending as of Jan. 15, 2026.
- A homicide determination would likely amplify scrutiny of Camp East Montana, with last year seeing at least 30 deaths in immigration detention and four in early 2026.
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"He said 'I can't breathe'": Medical examiner likely to call ICE detainee death a homicide
A medical examiner in El Paso County, Texas, appears ready to call the death of a 55-year-old Cuban detainee in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody a homicide, according to a phone call reviewed by The Washington Post. An employee for the medical examiner told the daughter of Lunas Campos that the office is likely to classify his death at Camp Montana East on Jan. 3 as a homicide, according to a recording of the call. Campos died followi…
'ICE Kills': Guards Reportedly Choked Man to Death at El Paso Detention Center
A Texas medical examiner is reportedly planning to classify the recent death of Geraldo Lunas Campos, who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last summer, as a homicide, marking the latest apparent abuse at the hands of an agency that has been rampaging lawlessly through US communities at the behest of President Donald Trump.As the Washington Post reported Friday, "An employee of El Paso County’s Office of the Medical Examiner to…
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New York UpstateMedical examiner believes death of ICE detainee arrested in Upstate NY was homicide (report)
The detainee was a 55-year-old Cuban who was arrested in Rochester.
He was declared deceased at 10:16 p.m. after facing serious health problems. Cause of death is in the process of being investigated. Thus says the press release with which the Immigration and Custom Enforcement reported the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos, who died on January 3, while in custody in the detention center of Camp East Montana, in El Paso, Texas, the largest in the United States. On that day Lunas, 55 years old Cuban, had begun to dis…
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