Another arrest, another person dying in
police custody. This time it was mother of eight kids 42 year old
Raynette Turner of Mount Vernon, New York. While waiting for
arraignment after being arrested for shoplifting she was found dead
in her holding cell. Her husband of 23 years, Herman Turner is not
taking this lightly. “Sounds like a cover-up to me. If they Mount
Vernon police did their job she would still be alive. I want
somebody's head to roll on this. I am not going to rest until I get
some type of justice for my wife. That's the bottom line.”
So far the officials results have been
inconclusive as to how she died. Herman wasn't even sure that his
wife was arrested on Friday of Saturday for stealing crab legs where
she was found a short distance away from by police. He was told she
was complaining of feeling ill on Monday and was found dead on
Tuesday. He didn't find out that his wife was dead until two
detectives showed up at his house to tell him. “We know she was
requesting medical treatment and it seems that, at some level, the
system and the protocols that the city was following failed.”
Officials say that this was Raynette's
third arrest for shoplifting recently which her husband says is a
“bald-faced lie.” He says she has been on probation for the past
five years and has not been arrested in that time. She was taken to
the hospital between 7:30pm and 8pm and treated for high blood
pressure and then brought back to her cell after 10pm. She was last
seen awake in her cell between noon and 1pm and found dead at 2pm
when police needed to wake her to be arraigned.
Her husband waited for her in court
until 4pm, no one telling him that she had already died. “No one
said anything to me about my wife was downstairs, dead. They just let
me sit in the courtroom all day long, waiting for her to come and be
seen by the judge.” He also said that there is no record of his
wife being at the hospital. “I'm angry. Very angry. Somebody needs
to pay. Somebody really needs to pay for this. I'm sorry, I'm not
going to let this rest.”
There is talk of better procedures to
be in lace when there are people arrested that have or complain of
health issues but it seems like more and more people will be dying
under strange circumstances while they try to work the bugs out. I
have no idea how a man is supposed to raise eight children, ranging
from 8 to 21, all on his own.
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