The minor children of Melvin Ariel Calero Mendoza — a 39-year-old Nicaraguan asylum seeker — has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a detention center in Aurora and its medical director in connection with his 2022 death.
In addition to The Geo Group, the lawsuit also named Dr. Cary Walker, the facility’s medical director, who was the sole physician working when Mendoza died.
The lawsuit alleges that Mendoza died because Geo and Walker “failed to diagnose and treat a blood clot in his leg.”…