At age 39, Andres Linares Baca died while in the custody of the downtown detention center in El Paso County. He died on May 29, 2022, which was 19 days after he entered the jail. The custodial death report (CDR) repeatedly indicates that the cause of death is unknown and pending an autopsy. However, in what seems an obscure way to reveal that Mr. Baca took his own life, the report shows that hanging/strangulation was the means of death.

Justin Joshua Flores Dies in the El Paso County Downtown Detention Facility (EPCDF)

Justin Joshua Flores died at age 31 on December 6, 2021, in the downtown El Paso County Jail. He had been booked into the custody of the jail just ten days prior to his death. During intake screening, per the CDR, Mr. Flores did not appear intoxicated by drugs or alcohol.

The autopsy results revealed that Mr. Flores died of “Acute Mixed Drug Toxicity (Fentanyl, Hydroxyzine, Trazodone, Venlafaxine and 10-Hydroxycarbazepine).” The means of death is listed on the CDR as a drug overdose.

Brandon Pacheco Calzada Dies an Inmate of an El Paso, Texas, Jail on 12/24/2021

Brandon Pacheco Calzada was only 23 years old when he died in the custody of the El Paso County Jail in El Paso, Texas, on December 24, 2021. He had been booked into the jail on December 16, 2021. The summary of how his death occurred shows that about 7 hours after he entered the jail, pills were located in his property. At about that same time, he was supposed to be escorted from a 5^th-floor cell to the 2^nd floor for an interview. Instead, he was in an unresponsive state, looked pale, and was gasping for air.

Mr. Calzada was transported to a hospital on December 17, 2021, and placed on life support. Life support was terminated on the day of his death, and Dr. Raul Isern is the person who pronounced him dead. Mr. Calzada was at least the third person who died in the El Paso County jail in downtown El Paso in just the month of December of 2021.

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