Family buries "unjustly accused" Mexican teen who died in ICE custody

World Family buries 19-year-old Mexican man who died in ICE custody: "They fabricated a crime" April 6, 2026 / 7:10 AM EDT / CBS/AFP Add CBS News on Google Hundreds of people gathered Saturday for the burial of a young Mexican man who died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, with family members denouncing the "fabricated" charges that led to his detention and death.Royer Perez Jimenez, a 19-year-old from the municipality of San Juan Chamula in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, died on March 16 at a detention center in Florida.After the family received his body on Thursday, his uncle, Manuel Perez, said Royer was a "hard worker" who immigrated at 15 to "triumph and help his family."He was arrested in January on suspicion of resisting arrest and giving a false identity to law enforcement, but Perez insists he was confused because he was not fluent in English. Relatives and friends cry watching the coffin of Royer Perez Jimenez, a 19-year-old Mexican migrant who was found dead in a U.S. detention center, during his funeral in the Tzotzil indigenous community of San Juan Chamula, Chiapas state, Mexico on April 4, 2026.  Luis AGUILAR /AFP via Getty Images "He was unjustly accused as a criminal. ... They fabricated a crime," Perez told AFP, while also expressing the family's doubts about the circumstances of his death.ICE officials said Royer died of an apparent suicide but the official cause of death remained under investigation."What we want is a thorough investigation because, unfortunately, we do not believe suicide was the cause of his death, rather we suspect it was probably a homicide," Perez said. According to ICE, Perez Jimenez was evaluated by medical staff when he arrived at the immigration detention center in late February and answered "no" to all suicide screening questions, CBS News Miami reported.   Relatives and friends carry the coffin of Royer Perez Jimenez, a 19-year-old Mexican migrant who was found dead in a U.S....