A 26-year-old man held at the troubled Rikers Island jail complex died Monday — the 18th such death in 2022 — exactly three years to the day from the start of his pretrial detention in the city jails.
Gilberto Garcia went into some kind of medical distress in the Anna M. Kross Center around noon before he was found by city Correction Department staffers, according to agency sources and records. He was declared dead just before 1 p.m.
Garcia was sent to Rikers on Oct. 31, 2019, after being arrested for first-degree robbery in Manhattan. He also may have been held under a state parole warrant, Correction Department records indicate.
