An investigation is underway after a man died while in police custody at Northport DCH early Saturday morning.
A patrol officer responded to a call of property damage to a home in the Cherrystone neighborhood on Friday night just after 11 p.m. Police say a family member that called a man later identified at 31 year old Kendrell Watkins was “losing it”.
A woman reported that a man was half-dressed in the empty parking lot of a shopping center off Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The man was later identified as Watkins, police learned. Patrol officers approached him and asked if he needed assistance. He said he did not and ran away. He ran naked into the intersection of 15th Street and Martin Luth King Jr. Boulevard.
In an attempt to stop him, Tuscaloosa PD officers used a taser to take him down. Watkins was hospitalized after. Tuscaloosa police report that Watkins was conscious and alert when medical personnel arrived about seven minutes later and treated him at the scene before transporting him to the Northport DCH to be checked for any complications.
Watkins became unresponsive at the hospital and was pronounced dead. The cause of death is under investigation by members of the Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit. Tuscaloosa police said both of the patrol officers involved will remain on administrative leave until the investigation is complete.
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