Man Dies While In Police Custody On Long Island: PD

SELDEN, NY — A man died while in police custody on Monday evening in Selden, Suffolk County police said.

Just after 9:30 p.m., a detention attendant in the Sixth Precinct was monitoring the cell block when he noticed a prisoner, Quinn Harrison, lying on a bench in the cell in an awkward position, police said.

The desk sergeant was notified and officers then began CPR and applied an automatic
external defibrillator, police said.

Members of Selden Rescue responded, continued CPR, and administered Narcan, police said.

Harrison was transported by ambulance to Stony Brook University Hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said.

Harrison, 39, of Shirley, was being held overnight after being arrested earlier in the day on two bench warrants and one count of seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, police said.

Homicide squad detectives, the Internal Affairs Bureau and the New York State Attorney General are
investigating, police said.