A 29-year-old man died Friday after he was found unresponsive in a holding cell following his arraignment at Bronx Criminal Court, according to the New York City Department of Correction.<\/p>\n
The man, identified as Julian Pagan, was found unresponsive shortly before 6 p.m. and transported to Lincoln Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:37 p.m.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are deeply saddened by this tragedy, and we share our condolences with Mr. Pagan\u2019s loved ones,\u201d Correction Commissioner Stanley Richards said in a statement, adding that the circumstances surrounding Pagan’s death will be investigated.<\/p>\n
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he was “deeply saddened” by Pagan’s death and said the DOC and its oversight partners will investigate the incident.<\/p>\n
Pagan’s attorney, Samantha Brugger of The Legal Aid Society, said he had appeared alert and engaged in court just hours before his death. <\/p>\n
She called on the city to provide Pagan’s family with answers and a full accounting of what happened while he was in custody.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the New York Attorney General’s Office said the Office of Special Investigation is “conducting a preliminary assessment of the matter.”<\/p>\n
Pagan’s cause of death remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 29-year-old man died Friday after he was found unresponsive in a holding cell following his arraignment at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-305736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305736","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=305736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}