Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad detectives are investigating the death of a suspect who was being held in jail for drug possession.
On June 23 at approximately 9:40 p.m., Quinn Harrison, 39, was seen lying in an awkward position in his cell by a detention attendant in the Sixth Precinct who was monitoring the cell block. The attendant notified the desk sergeant and officers then began CPR and applied an automatic external defibrillator. Members of Selden Rescue responded, continued CPR, and administered Narcan.
Harrison was transported by ambulance to Stony Brook University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Harrison 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.