An elderly man in the country illegally, whose lawyers said he had preexisting health conditions and should be released from detention to avoid the coronavirus, died by suicide at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in California Sunday night.

Immigration attorneys from the Centro Legal de la Raza in Oakland, California, said they were informed of Choung Won Ahn’s death this week.

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