Edwin Lopez-Cornejo was an illegal immigrant from El Salvador who died at Delaney Hall last week during a cardiac episode.

Edwin Lopez Cornejo died Aug. 1, his family said. Cornejo's mother blamed her son's death on him not receiving medications needed to treat his diabetes.

Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, 41, had been detained at the Delaney Hall Detention Facility in Newark, according to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement.