DC kidnapping suspect dies hours after arrest in jail cell, police say

A person accused of abducting his girlfriend final summer season at gunpoint in Washington, D.C., has died in police custody, simply hours after being arrested.

Officers performed a verify of a suspect who was in custody on the Metropolitan Police Division’s Second District police station round 10:30 a.m. Thursday, police informed FOX 5.

The officers conducting the verify discovered Marquez Parker, 44, unconscious and never respiration. The officers reportedly instantly requested paramedics, administered Narcan, started CPR and tried to make use of a defibrillator to save lots of Parker. 

Regardless of their efforts, D.C. fireplace and emergency medical personnel pronounced Parker lifeless on the scene.

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Parker was arrested Thursday at 6:45 a.m., simply over three hours previous to his loss of life, in reference to the alleged abduction of his girlfriend in July 2022.

Police claimed that Parker compelled the girl right into a car in opposition to her will outdoors their residence on the northwest aspect of city. They had been alerted to the scenario by the sufferer’s household and buddies after a dwell Instagram video allegedly confirmed Parker pointing a gun at her.

The sufferer was later discovered protected. 

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Parker was arrested for the alleged abduction of his girlfriend again in July 2022.
(Metropolitan Police Division)

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Parker was charged with armed kidnappings involving a gun in that case. 

Searches for contraband and weapons occur at holding amenities, based on an MPD commonplace working procedures doc. Extra in depth searches of somebody in custody should be authorized by a watch commander.

MPD says the division’s inside affairs bureau is investigating Parker’s loss of life.