A 51-year-old man named Hector Sierra just became the second detainee to die at Brooklyn Central Booking in one week. He got sick with a medical emergency Sunday morning at the facility on Shermerhorn Street, and staff called an ambulance around 11 a.m. Paramedics rushed him to NYU Langone in Cobble Hill, but he didn't make it. Sierra had been picked up Saturday night for dodging a subway fare at the 18th Avenue station on the inline in Bensonhurst.
Cops found drugs on him, too, so he ended up at Central Booking just after midnight. Everything seemed fine until he started vomiting the next day. This comes right after 33-year-old Zemequa Miller passed away there on April 12th. She was busted back on February 10th for having controlled substances and paraphernalia, got found unresponsive in custody, and had been to the hospital twice before that.
No word yet on what exactly caused Sierra's death, but investigations are still rolling for both cases. Police sources say they're digging deeper into what went down at the facility. Two tragedies like this in seven days raise real questions about conditions in there. Folks are watching close as updates come in.
I'm Corey with the story, and you've been listening to New York News Today, AI-powered local news.