On Sunday, the New York Times reports, 28-year-old Serge Duthely hanged himself while in police custody. This is the third time someone has hanged himself in an NYPD holding cell since May.
After he was arrested in Canarsie on Sunday afternoon on a drunk-driving charge, police said, Duthely was taken to the NYPD’s Intoxicated Driver Testing Unit, at the 78th Precinct station house, in Park Slope. He was subsequently taken back to the 69th Precinct station house, in Canarsie.
Police said he was found “unconscious and unresponsive inside the cell area” at 5:30 that evening. He had hanged himself using his T-shirt. He died after being taken to Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center in cardiac arrest.
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