BALTIMORE (AP) - Baltimore police say that a woman who collapsed in a Baltimore jail cell following a medical emergency has died.
The woman suffered an illness after being arrested for a misdemeanor warrant from Calvert County earlier this month. She was identified as 52-year-old Kim Doreen Chase.
Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said after Chase was arrested officers took her to her home, about a block from the arrest site, for about 30 minutes, where a family member braided her hair before she was transported to a station house in a wagon. He says drug paraphernalia was found on her at the time of her arrest, but no drugs. Davis said no force was used against Chase.
A lieutenant has been suspended, and the department’s Special Investigations Response Team is investigating.
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