A 26-year-old man has died after being found unresponsive outside the River North police station Saturday morning.

Emergency services arrived at the station in the 1100 block of North Larrabee Street around 8:30 a.m. The man was transported to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:08 a.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. An autopsy was scheduled for Sunday.

Over a hundred migrants, many of them Venezuelan families, are camping outside the Near North District police station in tents that have been winterized with blue carps. A few of them identified the deceased as one of their own and said another man, 27, was still hospitalized and intubated as of Sunday night.

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According to police, no arrests had been made in the incident, but detectives are conducting a death investigation pending autopsy results.

Friends identified the deceased as a father from Caracas, Venezuela. He had four young children back home, one of whom had just celebrated their birthday, and he had arrived in Chicago less than a week ago.

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Both the man who died and the man who was hospitalized had left the station at some point to pick up some clothing donations, other migrants said. They came back accompanied by three American men, who left shortly afterward.

The men then seemingly passed out, but their friends said they weren’t initially concerned because they thought the two men were tired or possibly drunk. It was only once they noticed the pair had lost consciousness that they realized something was wrong and emergency services were called.

“I was in shock,” said Renny Riera, a longtime friend of the man who died, in Spanish. Once the reality of the situation set in by evening, he said he had to go sleep elsewhere because his tent was right next to where his friend had died hours earlier.

“I cried all night,” he added.

Riera, who is originally from the Venezuelan city of Valencia, made his way north to the United States with two of his own relatives, but he said he had met the man years ago in Bolivia, after which they migrated to Chile. Their last journey together had brought them to Chicago.

Friends said the family is hoping they can repatriate his remains soon.