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 examine 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 examine discovered Marquez Parker, 44, unconscious and never respiratory. 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 useless 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 pressured the girl right into a automobile towards her will outdoors their residence on the northwest facet of city. They had been alerted to the state of affairs 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 secure. 

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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 services, in accordance with an MPD commonplace working procedures doc. Extra intensive searches of somebody in custody have to be accredited by a watch commander.

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