{"id":365594,"date":"2026-10-06T06:52:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/365594\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T06:52:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:52:44","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-brooklyn-man-dies-after-falling-ill-in-custody-at-nypds-67th-precinct-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/365594\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Brooklyn Man Dies After Falling Ill In Custody At Nypds 67th Precinct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 54-year-old Brooklyn man who fell ill in custody at the NYPD&#8217;s 67th Precinct has died, according to police.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Paramedics took Reginald Newkirk to Kings County Hospital on Saturday afternoon. He was pronounced dead the following day.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Newkirk&#8217;s passing marks the eighth death in custody this year in New York City.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to public court records, Newkirk was arrested on Friday and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance. He was awaiting arraignment at the time of his death.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD says its Force Investigation Division is investigating Newkirk&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 reached out to the NYPD for additional information on the incident that led to Newkirk\u2019s arrest but was still waiting for a response as of Sunday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 54-year-old Brooklyn man who fell ill in custody at the NYPD&#8217;s 67th Precinct has died, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-365594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365594","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=365594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}