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NJ Authorities Reviewing Death Of Emotionally Disturbed Man Outside Trenton Hospital NJ Authorities Reviewing Death Of Emotionally Disturbed Man Outside Trenton Hospital
NJ Authorities Reviewing Death Of Emotionally Disturbed Man Outside Trenton Hospital State investigators are reviewing the death of an emotionally disturbed Trenton man taken into custody by police outside a local hospital. Officers responding to a 11:48 a.m. call Friday of a disturbed man outside St. Francis Medical Center on Hamilton Avenue took him into custody after a brief chase, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Medical attention was required after the man became unresponsive, Grewal said, adding that he was pronounced dead soon after at the hospital. His identity was temporarily being withheld, the attorney general said. The Integrity Bureau within the …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Prosecutor: Autopsy Will Determine How Paranoid Paterson Man Died In Police Custody Prosecutor: Autopsy Will Determine How Paranoid Paterson Man Died In Police Custody
Prosecutor: Autopsy Will Determine How Paranoid Paterson Man Died In Police Custody UPDATE: An autopsy will determine how a paranoid Paterson man died in police custody, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said Tuesday. Jameek Lowery, 27, “appeared agitated” when he came to police headquarters at 3:45 a.m. Saturday after calling 911 twice, Valdes said. The first time, at 2:45 a.m., he said “he had taken Ecstasy and was paranoid,” the prosecutor said. EMS took him by ambulance to the hospital, but Lowery “left after becoming erratic,” she said. Lowery called again at 3:42 a.m. “reporting that people were trying to kill him in the area of Broadway and Memorial Driv…

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by Jerry DeMarco