Juan de León Gutiérrez

How they died

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Juan de Leon Gutierrez was transferred on April 20 from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, part of the Department of Health and Human Services that houses migrant children. No health concerns were noticed by clinicians when the boy arrived at a shelter. The next morning, Gutierrez became noticeably ill. Camp personnel brought the child to a hospital emergency room that morning, where he was treated and sent back to the camp that same day. Later that day, the boy was transferred to a children's hospital in Texas and was treated for several days in the hospital's intensive care unit where the child died on April 30, 2019. This incident may be outside of FatalEncounters dataset, which does not include individuals after they've been booked into the jail or prison system. Since the child was applying for asylum in the United States, his incarceration status is uncertain.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Juan de León Gutiérrez, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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