{"id":364454,"date":"2026-10-05T00:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T00:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364454\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T00:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T00:10:08","slug":"a-54-year-old-man-died-in-police-custody-after-falling-ill-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364454\/","title":{"rendered":"A 54-year-old man died in police custody after falling ill in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 54-year-old man died in police custody after falling ill in Brooklyn, cops said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Reginald Newkirk became sickly on Saturday at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/bureaus\/patrol\/precincts\/67th-precinct.page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NYPD\u2019s 67 Precinct station house<\/a> around 2:12 p.m. on Snyder and Nostrand Aves. in Flatbush.<\/p>\n<p>EMS rushed Newkirk to Kings county hospital, where he died on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of Newkirk\u2019s death was still unknown.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/bureaus\/investigative\/investigative-landing.page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NYPD\u2019s Force Investigation Division<\/a> is launching an investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Newkirk lived in Brooklyn, cops said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 54-year-old man died in police custody after falling ill in Brooklyn, cops said Sunday. Reginald Newkirk became&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,135176],"class_list":["post-364454","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","tag-police-custody-dies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364454","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=364454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}