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Luis Manuel Aracena died on 5/20/2018. Luis was an honorably discharged military veteran who was sentenced to 45 years for his first conviction for a convenience store hold-up armed with an unloaded gun. At the time of the crime, he was suffering from PTSD, drug addiction, unemployment and homelessness. His appeals were denied. He was 15 years in on his sentence when he died. from the Miami Herald (https://www.miamiherald.com/news/special-reports/florida-prisons/article212579129.html) ...One of those deaths was of 34-year-old Luis Aracena, who succumbed on May 20 to a severe asthma attack, according to another inmate. The witness called his wife, Brandi Pool, and told her Aracena collapsed after being rejected from the infirmary. Pool said her husband and other inmates tried to call nearby officers for help. "They were told he was fine and to stop pounding on the glass," Pool said. He tried CPR, Pool said, but air wouldn't enter Aracena's lungs. "His airway was totally blocked."
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