Attorney for third migrant detainee who died at Camp East Montana reads family statement

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- Over two months after 36-year-old Victor Manuel Diaz from Nicaragua was pronounced dead while under ICE custody at Camp East Montana, his family was able to pay their last respects to him.

ABC-7 reported back in January that Randall Kallinen, the attorney representing Diaz's family, had just started an investigation into Diaz's death; now the family still wants to know what happened to him.

The Department of Homeland Security told ABC-7 back in January that Diaz's body was taken to William Beaumont Army Medical Center, north of Fort Bliss, where the autopsy is being conducted by army officials and the Armed Forces Medical Examiner's Office. This raised questions about why the two previous migrants who died were not taken there and were taken to the El Paso County Medical Examiner's Office.

In a written statement, DHS and ICE told ABC-7 today:

"Deaths occurring at Camp East Montana fall under exclusive federal jurisdiction and should be coordinated with the Office of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner. That jurisdictional process was applied in the case of Victor Manuel Diaz, in which ICE notified and coordinated with the Office of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner.”