ICE: Death Of Detainee Held At Ga. Immigration Center Appears To Be Suicide

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says staff at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin found Efrain De La Rosa unresponsive in his cell. He died Tuesday at a hospital in Cuthbert after efforts to revive him failed. CREDIT KATE BRUMBACK / ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE

Authorities say a Mexican man held at a South Georgia immigration detention center has died in an apparent suicide.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a news release Thursday that 40-year-old Efrain De La Rosa was pronounced dead around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday.
ICE says staff at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin found De La Rosa unresponsive in his cell. He died at a hospital in Cuthbert after efforts to revive him failed.
ICE says the case is under investigation but the “preliminary cause of death appears to be self-inflicted strangulation.”
De La Rosa was handed over to ICE on March 11 by law enforcement in Wake County, North Carolina, after a March 9 felony conviction for larceny. He was in deportation proceedings at the time of his death.

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