{"id":227694,"date":"2025-10-20T14:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/227694\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T14:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:59:07","slug":"report-doug-martin-died-in-oakland-police-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/227694\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Doug Martin died in Oakland police custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Details are emerging regarding the extremely untimely passing of former NFL running back Doug Martin, who <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/former-nfl-running-back-doug-martin-dies-at-36\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">died on Saturday at the age of 36<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jakob Rodgers of the Bay Area News Group reports that Martin <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eastbaytimes.com\/2025\/10\/19\/ex-nfl-running-back-doug-martin-dies-in-oakland-police-custody-sources-say\/?campaign=ebtbreakingalert&amp;utm_email=3424748105A6E4095454F21E5F&amp;active=no&amp;lctg=3424748105A6E4095454F21E5F&amp;content=alert&amp;utm_source=listrak&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.eastbaytimes.com%2f2025%2f10%2f19%2fex-nfl-running-back-doug-martin-dies-in-oakland-police-custody-sources-say%2f&amp;utm_campaign=bang-east_bay_times-breaking_news_alerts-nl&amp;utm_content=alert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">died while in the custody of police<\/a> in Oakland, California.<\/p>\n<p>Early Saturday, Oakland police were responding to reports of a home invasion in East Oakland. The Oakland Police Department issued a statement that, simultaneous to receiving reports of a burglary, they were informed that the suspect was having a \u201cmedical emergency.\u201d A \u201cbrief struggle\u201d with the suspect followed. The person became unresponsive after being taken into custody. He received medical assistance from paramedics at the scene, before being taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Martin\u2019s cause of death has not yet been determined. The matter is under investigation, and officers who were involved in the incident have been <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/10\/18\/burglary-suspect-dies-in-custody-oakland-police-department-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">placed on administrative leave<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Martin, an Oakland native, played college football at Boise State. He was a first-round pick of the Buccaneers in 2012. He played in Tampa for six seasons before finishing his career in 2018, with the Raiders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Details are emerging regarding the extremely untimely passing of former NFL running back Doug Martin, who died on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-227694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}