{"id":364668,"date":"2026-10-05T09:42:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T09:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364668\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T09:42:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T09:42:29","slug":"man-dies-in-nypd-custody-investigation-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364668\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies in NYPD custody, investigation underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) \u2014 Police are investigating the death of a man that occurred while he was in NYPD custody, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said 54-year-old Reginald Newkirk was a prisoner at the 67th Precinct near East Flatbush when police requested EMS assistance just before 2:15 p.m. on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\tStay connected with community stories that matter: Visit our homepage\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Newkirk had fallen ill, according to police. EMS responded and rushed the Brooklyn man to NYC Health + Hospitals\/Kings County, where he was later pronounced dead by staff.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD\u2019s force investigation division is investigating Newkirk\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>Police did not provide further details surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer Gustafson is a digital content producer from Long Island who has covered New York state and city news since 2023. See more of his work <a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/author\/spencer-gustafson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) \u2014 Police are investigating the death of a man that occurred while he was in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-364668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364668","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=364668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}