HOUSTON – A Harris County medical examiner has ruled the manner of death of a 32-year-old man involved in a struggle with detention officers while being escorted out of the Harris County Jail a homicide.

32-year-old Alexis Jovany Cardenas died while being escorted out of the Harris County Jail on July 8.

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Cardenas had been in jail since Sunday, July 6, when the Houston Police Department arrested him on multiple outstanding municipal misdemeanor warrants.

Video footage from the jail showed a detention officer open the door for Cardenas to leave the jail around 12:50 a.m. on July 8. Cardenas appears to point at his phone before a struggle ensues, which resulted in Cardenas being dragged

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