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An Afghan national, Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 41, died at Parkland Hospital in Dallas after about a day in ICE custody following a March 13 arrest; the death is under active investigation. He had prior SNAP fraud and theft arrests in 2025, entered the U.S. in 2021, and his parole expired in August 2025. ICE says detainees receive medical care and will coordinate appropriate notifications to next of kin and consulates.
CBP sent Congress a self-drafted Q&A about the January 24 fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, answering some questions and deferring others to DHS and investigating agencies, as lawmakers pressed for a mandated death notification. The move followed criticism over lack of transparency, and the agency later provided the death-in-custody report detailing the sequence of events, including OC spray deployment and agents’ gunfire, in a context of broader calls to reform DHS use-of-force policies.
A Fremont man died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound during an incident with Dodge County Sheriff's deputies, as the Nebraska State Patrol investigates the in-custody death at the request of the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies were attempting to speak to the resident at a home outside of Fremont, but he initially refused to speak to them. Before deputies could contact the person, they heard a single gunshot from a room upstairs, where they found the man with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. No deputies fired their weapons during the incident, and no other injuries occurred.
The Austin Police Department has identified the man involved in an in-custody death as Reice Brown, 27. Brown was stunned by an officer after repeatedly hitting himself with a metal object. The incident was captured on body cameras, and the footage will be released within ten business days. The APD is conducting both a criminal and administrative investigation into the incident. The officer who deployed the stun gun has three years of experience with the department. Brown died shortly after being stunned, and the cause of death is yet to be determined.
An officer in Austin stunned a man who was repeatedly striking himself with a metal object, resulting in the man's death at a local hospital. Police had received multiple 911 calls about the injured pedestrian and attempted to de-escalate the situation before resorting to the use of a Taser. The incident is now being investigated as an in-custody death, with both criminal and internal investigations underway. The frontage road in the area remains closed as the investigation continues.
New footage obtained by ABC News shows Irvo Otieno being pulled from his jail cell and pushed into a police SUV for transport to Virginia’s Central State Hospital, where he later died. The video shows deputies struggling with Otieno inside the cell and dragging him through the hallway while his pants begin to come off. Seven Henrico County Sheriff’s deputies and three Central State Hospital employees have been arrested and charged with second-degree murder. Otieno's family says he was going through a mental health crisis and wanted to go to the hospital to get help.
Prosecutors in Virginia plan to release a video that led to the charging of seven deputies and three state mental hospital employees with second-degree murder in the death of Irvo Otieno, a Black man who was handcuffed and shackled. The 12-minute video reportedly shows deputies pushing down and smothering Otieno, who did not appear to be combative. The case highlights another example of a Black man's in-custody death that has law enforcement under scrutiny and comes nearly three years after the killing of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis.