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Name Not Disclosed

Age : 31

Gender : Male

Race : Unknown

Date : 09/07/2021

Location : 1000 block of South Dakota Avenue

City : Sioux Falls

County : Minnehaha

State : South Dakota

Agency : Sioux Falls Police Department

Officer(s) :Not Disclosed

Cause of Death : Medical emergency

Event : Died in police custody during arrest

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

On 09/07/2021, an unidentified 31-year-old man from Lower Brule died after collapsing while handcuffed in Sioux Falls Police Department custody in the 1000 block of South Dakota Avenue. Officers and emergency medical personnel attempted resuscitation, and the man was transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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The incident began at approximately 4 p.m. when police received reports of a gunshot in the area. A woman separately called 911 and reported that a man armed with a handgun was banging on her door and then forced his way into her residence. The woman told police the man was behaving erratically and appeared to be hallucinating.
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Police alleged that before officers arrived, the man had been with 28-year-old Dewey Damien Tuttle and that one of the two men fired a handgun. Police subsequently arrested Tuttle for possession of stolen property. Two handguns were recovered during the investigation, one outside in the area and another inside the woman's residence.
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According to police, officers encountered the 31-year-old man outside the residence and described him as making unusual or erratic movements. Police said they persuaded him to leave the handgun inside the residence and come outside. Officers then detained and handcuffed him.
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The man was alive and ambulatory after being handcuffed. According to the police account, officers were escorting him toward a patrol vehicle when he suddenly collapsed. Officers and responding emergency personnel began medical treatment before transporting him to the hospital, where he died.
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The South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation assumed responsibility for investigating the death rather than leaving the criminal investigation solely with the Sioux Falls Police Department. DCI operates under the South Dakota Attorney General and is the state investigative agency used to review deaths and shootings involving local police.
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The contemporaneous public account does not describe police shooting, Tasering or otherwise using a weapon against the man. His death occurred after police physically detained and handcuffed him and while officers were moving him to a police vehicle.
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Despite the original announcement that his identity was being withheld pending family notification, a renewed search of subsequent DCI material, news archives and other publicly indexed records did not establish a reliable public identification for the 31-year-old man. The database entry should therefore remain Name Withheld rather than assigning an unverified identity.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND
The Sioux Falls police officers who detained and handcuffed the man have not been publicly identified.
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AGENCY RECORD
The South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation was called in to investigate the death because it occurred while the man was in Sioux Falls Police Department custody. Contemporary reporting specifically identified DCI, rather than Sioux Falls police, as the agency handling the death investigation.

SOURCE LINKS :

https://www.yahoo.com/news/dci-rules-sioux-falls-police-201927976.html
https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/2021/09/08/dci-investigating-after-sioux-falls-suspect-collapses-custody-dies/
https://www.brookingsradio.com/lower-brule-man-dies-while-in-custody-of-sioux-falls-police/
https://mitchellnow.com/news/236632-lower-brule-man-dies-during-sioux-falls-arrest/