A 22-year-old Guatemalan asylum-seeker died in custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a downtown Fort Worth hospital.

Maria Celeste Ochoa Yoc de Ramirez was pronounced dead on Sunday, ICE said in a news release late Monday.

The cause of death, ICE said, was “autoimmune hepatitis, complicated by septic shock and acute liver failure.”

This is the eighth death of an immigrant in ICE custody this fiscal year. It comes as scrutiny grows over the medical care detained immigrants receive in ICE custody.

But ICE said in its statement, “fatalities in ICE custody, statistically, are exceedingly rare and occur at a fraction of the national average for the U.S. detained population.”

Guatemalan diplomatic officials could not be reached for comment. ICE said they had been contacted, as well as the young woman’s next of kin.

Ochoa had passed a “credible fear” interview, a crucial first step in seeking asylum, ICE said.

Ochoa had family in the U.S. and in Guatemala. Two brothers said she was seeking asylum from an abusive ex-husband, whom she had recently divorced after a late-term miscarriage. Ochoa fled for refuge in the U.S. because the husband wouldn’t “leave her in peace.” They described her as “la consentida,” the favored child and their only sister.

“We are heartbroken,” said her brother Rafael Ochoa, reached in Guatamala by The Dallas Morning News. “We want justice. She is not the first Guatemalan to die...We want justice.”

Added her brother Jimmy Ochoa, “She was such a very kind person. I just don’t have words for her.”

Jimmy Ochoa said his sister was in good health when she fled Guatemala. Rafael Ochoa said, “My sister did not suffer from any disease. My little sister was full of life at only 22 years old."

The Guatemalan community quickly mobilized via a Guatemala-based television stations to help the Ochoa family raise funds to send the body of the young woman back to her family in the mountain town of El Porvenir, Guatemala. The television stations used Facebook to transmit news about the woman nicknamed “Tete.”

ICE said that Ochoa entered the U.S. on Sept. 4, 2019 near Hidalgo, Texas, a popular crossing spot.

On Sept. 6, the Border Patrol transferred her to a detention center in Raymondville. In February, she was hospitalized three times, according to ICE.

On Feb. 7, she was hospitalized for a medical procedure and two days later she underwent surgery. She was medically discharged Feb. 10.

On Feb. 13, the Dallas regional office of ICE transferred Ochoa to the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, about an hour southwest of Dallas. On Feb. 18, Ochoa was sent to another hospital for additional medical treatment.

On Feb. 28, Ochoa was transferred to Texas Health Fort Worth hospital and she remained there until she died on Mar. 8, ICE said.

In the last year, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform has stepped up its investigation into federal immigration detention and enforcement over a range of issues from family separations to medical abuse of immigrants. In December, Buzzfeed reported on widespread medical abuse for jailed immigrants, based on a whistleblower report.

Last week, The News reported on the treatment of a Mexican immigrant who became disabled during custody for a nonviolent criminal offense of using a false U.S. passport card. That immigrant, who is seeking refuge under asylum protections, was headed to work in Fort Worth, where he has family.