Husband of 44-Year-Old Mother of 8 Who Died in Police Holding Cell Demands Answers

 

The husband of a 44-year-old mother of eight who died in a Westchester County holding cell Monday after being arrested on a shoplifting charge for the third time in recent weeks says if officers had done their jobs, his wife would still be alive.

Police say the woman, identified as Raynette Turner, was found unresponsive in her cell in the Mount Vernon Police Department, where she was being held pending arraignment.

"I'm angry. I'm very angry," Turner's husband, Herman Turner, told NBC 4 New York Tuesday. "Somebody needs to pay."

Turner, who had eight children, had been arrested Saturday afternoon in Restaurant Depot, a wholesale cash and carry foodservice supplier, on Columbus Avenue. She was brought to the Mount Vernon holding facility and processed.

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Source: NBC News