A person charged within the armed abduction of his girlfriend died Thursday in police custody, lower than 4 hours after he was arrested, in accordance with police.
Washington, D.C
Man dies in D.C. police custody just hours after his arrest
Police stated that Marquez Parker, 44, of Northwest Washington, was found unconscious and never respiration at 10:30 a.m. throughout a prisoner test of the police division’s Second District cell block.
Officers contacted emergency medical personnel, administered Narcan, carried out CPR and used a defibrillator as they tried to revive him, in accordance with police. D.C. Fireplace and Emergency Medical Providers employees responded and pronounced him useless, police stated.
The Workplace of the Chief Medical Examiner will decide the trigger and method of Parker’s loss of life, in accordance with police. The inner affairs bureau of the police division is investigating the incident, Paris Lewbel, the police division’s deputy director of communications, stated in a press release.
A girl who answered a cellphone quantity listed for Parker declined to remark.
Parker was arrested with out incident at 6:45 a.m. Thursday by members of the Capital Space Regional Fugitive Process Power on a warrant for armed kidnapping, police stated.
His arrest had adopted an intensive search in late July for his girlfriend, Selita Tashaun Lee, who police stated appeared to have been kidnapped at gunpoint and compelled right into a automobile in Northwest Washington.
The seek for Lee in July began at 3:40 a.m. An individual had advised police he noticed a girl pressured right into a automobile towards her will, police stated in July. Her kinfolk pleaded for her launch. Lee was discovered secure some hours later, in accordance with police and kinfolk.
Parker’s arrest within the case got here after greater than six months.
Efforts to achieve Lee and her kinfolk on Sunday had been unsuccessful.