{"id":237847,"date":"2026-05-20T10:36:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237847\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T10:36:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:36:41","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-40-year-old-man-dies-while-in-custody-at-rikers-island-second-inmate-death-in-24-hours-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237847\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | 40 Year Old Man Dies While In Custody At Rikers Island Second Inmate Death In 24 Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 40-year-old man has died while in custody at Rikers Island. This is the second inmate death within 24 hours. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Department of Corrections and Community Supervision released a statement identifying him as Umais Khan. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to the statement, CPR was performed when Khan could not be woken up. He was pronounced deceased in his dorm just before 11:30 a.m. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Khan\u2019s death is the fourth death of an inmate this year. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The third death was reported less than 24 hours before when 41-year-old Rajpattie Ramkellawan was also found unconscious and unresponsive in her dorm. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cI am absolutely devastated that we have lost someone in our care, and this tragedy is felt by every member of service. On behalf of myself and the Department, I share my deepest condolences with his loved ones. This incident will be investigated.\u201d says NYC Correction Commissioner Stanley Richards. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a statement on the death and confirmed an investigation is underway to determine the cause of death. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 40-year-old man has died while in custody at Rikers Island. This is the second inmate death within&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-237847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}