The family of U.S. Air Force veteran Maxwell Aguirre is suing the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department after the 22-year-old's death by suicide in the Twin Towers Correctional Facility.

Aguirre was taken off life support after he hanged himself, an incident that occurred just weeks after a previous suicide attempt and while deputies who were supposed to be watching him were instead watching YouTube videos, as reported by Los Angeles Public Press.

Aguirre's family and their attorneys said in a press conference Thursday morning that those deputies should be brought up on criminal charges.

Denisse Gastélum, an attorney for the family, said the deputies missed multiple checks on inmates in the hour leading up to the discovery that Aguirre had hanged himself. Instead, they watched online

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