Human cost · named record
Maksym Chernyak
Arrived from Ukraine in August 2024 through the United for Ukraine humanitarian parole program. He and his wife, Oksana Tarasiuk, settled in Florida, where he obtained work authorization and a Social Security number.
The account in the record
The cited source reports the suspected cause of death as: Hemorrhagic stroke leading to brain death.
More than four and a half hours passed between the initial emergency call and his arrival at an emergency room; PHR concluded that delays in higher-level emergency care almost certainly contributed to his death.
Human Rights Watch / Physicians for Human Rights · HRW/PHR named case study: Maksym Chernyak
Custody timeline and recorded facts
- Age at death
- 44
- Sex as published
- Male
- Reported nationality
- Ukraine
- Date of death
- February 20, 2025
- Days in custody
- 19
- Custody context
- custodial facility
- Place of death
- HCA Kendall Hospital
- Place of death, state
- Florida
What the reviewed sources do not tell us
- Date of birth: Not established in reviewed sources
- Custody began: Not established in reviewed sources
Cause and medical-review status
Suspected cause, per Physicians for Human Rights medical review: Hemorrhagic stroke leading to brain death
- Suspected cause
- Hemorrhagic stroke leading to brain death
- Cause status as recorded
- suspected
- Attributed to
- Physicians for Human Rights medical review
What the reviewed sources do not tell us
- Official cause: Not established in reviewed sources
- Manner of death: Not established in reviewed sources
What remains unknown or disputed
- Date of birth is not published in the reviewed sources.
- The public record does not establish a complete clinical or custodial chronology beyond what the cited sources publish.
Facility and institutional associations
Krome North Service Processing Center — view the facility record
Custody location, not a finding of responsibility.
Why a facility name is not a finding of responsibility
Custodial records associate this person with this facility. This does not by itself establish that the facility or its operator caused or could have prevented the death.
Sources
Evidence boundaries
Cause, preventability, and responsibility are separate questions in this record.
What the sources establish
- The cited sources identify this person by name and record the death on the stated date within the report window.
- The cited sources associate the custody record with the named location.
- The cited source records the stated suspected cause; it is not converted into an official cause.
What remains unknown
- Date of birth is not published in the reviewed sources.
- The public record does not establish a complete clinical or custodial chronology beyond what the cited sources publish.
What this record does not establish
- That detention, a facility, a contractor, or an individual caused the death unless a cited finding explicitly says so.
- That the death was preventable or negligent unless a cited source explicitly establishes that conclusion.
- A custodial-location association does not by itself establish that the facility or its operator caused or could have prevented the death.
The cause language is reproduced as an attributed source finding. This project does not independently diagnose the death or adjudicate negligence, preventability, or responsibility.