Ind. Teen Dies in Police Custody After Telling Cops He Couldn’t Breathe

An autopsy on a teenage shoplifting suspect who died after complaining of breathing problems found that he suffered a heart attack.

IMPD officials say Terrell Day was detained by police after being suspected of shoplifting at a local mall.

Police officers from Indianapolis and the police department of Cumberland, Indiana, took the man into custody without incident moments later but he then reported having trouble breathing, police said.

A loss prevention officer at the nearby Burlington Coat Factory said a shoplifter had brandished a handgun and fled the store. He given up to actually police and started consumed into custody by IMPD safely, while you are his revolver was also restored near him.

The Marion County Coroner’s Office will determine his cause of death.

Homicide private eyes and Crime Lab that workers replied to operation the picture and behavior conversations. An ambulance was summoned, and the responding EMS crew determined that Day was OK to be transferred to jail. “When the jail wagon arrived, the suspect began to complain again of breathing problems”, the police said.

The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said it is investigating.

Day’s mother, Shanika Askew, said her son did not have any health problems.

“I just want answers to why they didn’t send him to the hospital when he said he was hurting the first time”, Askew, told NBC station WTHR on Sunday.

‘Why did they leave and have to come back?’

“The Indianapolis EMS family would like to extend our honest condolences”, IEMS Chief Charles Miramonti, MD said in the press release.