{"id":364412,"date":"2026-10-04T22:48:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T22:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364412\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T22:48:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T22:48:49","slug":"prisoner-dies-after-being-held-in-brooklyns-67th-precinct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364412\/","title":{"rendered":"Prisoner dies after being held in Brooklyn\u2019s 67th Precinct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"744\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-04-at-4.21.44-PM.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"Screenshot 2026-10-04 at 4.21.44\u202fPM\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Prisoner dies after being held in Brooklyn's 67th Precinct 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are investigating the death of a prisoner who died Sunday after being rushed to hospital from the 67 Precinct holding cells in Brooklyn, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Google streetview <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are investigating the death of a prisoner who died Sunday after being rushed to the hospital from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/bureaus\/patrol\/precincts\/67th-precinct.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">67th Precinct<\/a> holding cells in Brooklyn, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>According to police sources, paramedics were called to the precinct in East Flatbush just after 2 p.m. on Saturday after police claimed 54-year-old Reginald Newkirk had become ill while in the lockup. EMS rushed him to Kings County Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>He remained in hospital care until Sunday when he was pronounced dead. Newkirk had been cuffed on Oct. 2 for criminal possession of a controlled substance and had been awaiting arraignment.<\/p>\n<p>The death is being investigated by the NYPD\u2019s Force Investigation Division.\n<\/p>\n<p>Newkirk is the latest in a slew of people to die while waiting to see a judge in Brooklyn this year.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 9 a 46-year-old man died after suffering a medical emergency inside Brooklyn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/new-york\/brooklyn\/brooklyn-central-booking-prisoner-death-09102026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">central booking<\/a>. On April 12, Zamiqua Miller, 33, of Dumont Avenue in Brownsville was found unconscious and unresponsive while being held for booking at 120 Schermerhorn St.<\/p>\n<p>Police would not provide further information regarding the latest death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities are investigating the death of a prisoner who died Sunday after being rushed to hospital from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28204,98,100,99,9,24,63,103,135154],"class_list":["post-364412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-67th-precinct","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-prisoner-dies-in-custody"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364412","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=364412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}