Death by Cop 2021-2025
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Allan F. Tucker II
Age : 32
Gender : Male
Race : Black
Date : 08/15/2025
Location : Alexandria Adult Detention Center
City : Alexandria
County : Alexandria City
State : Virginia
Agency : Alexandria Police Department
Officer(s) :Not released
Cause of Death : Medical emergency
Event : Died from drug intoxication during arrest and transport to detention center
OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :
On 08/15/2025, at approximately 5:30 p.m., Alexandria Police Department officers responded to an apartment building in the 2800 block of North Beauregard Street after several 911 callers reported a man yelling, running through hallways and banging on apartment doors. Officers encountered 32-year-old Allan F. Tucker II in a hallway. Tucker told officers that someone armed with a gun was inside his apartment and repeatedly asked them to search it. Officers entered the apartment and found Tucker's father, who used a wheelchair, but found no other person or firearm. Tucker's father told police that Tucker had left the apartment for approximately 45 minutes and returned behaving erratically.
Officers arrested Tucker for public intoxication. Body-camera footage showed Tucker exhibiting significant agitation and apparent distress during the encounter. Police handcuffed Tucker and placed him in the rear of a patrol vehicle for transport to the William G. Truesdale Adult Detention Center. During the approximately 10-minute drive, Tucker continued yelling and repeatedly asked the transporting officer to take him to a hospital. The officer denied those requests and continued to the detention center, passing Inova Alexandria Hospital during the trip.
Police arrived at the detention center's secure vehicle entrance at approximately 6:10 p.m. Tucker had not yet been booked into the jail. A sheriff's deputy informed the Alexandria officers that intake would be delayed because detention-center personnel were undergoing a shift change. Tucker consequently remained handcuffed and restrained in the back seat of the Alexandria police vehicle for approximately 40 minutes while waiting for intake and the medical screening normally conducted during booking.
During that period, Tucker continued kicking, yelling and displaying signs of distress. Two Alexandria officers remained outside the vehicle but did not continuously monitor him. His movements and vocalizations eventually diminished. An officer subsequently looked through the vehicle window and discovered Tucker unresponsive, lying on his back in the rear seat. Officers removed him, requested paramedics, began CPR and administered Narcan. Alexandria Fire and EMS personnel continued resuscitation efforts, but Tucker never regained a pulse and was pronounced dead at the detention center's secure entrance. Because the detention center had not begun the intake process, Tucker remained legally in Alexandria Police Department custody when he died.
The Virginia Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined that Tucker died accidentally from cocaine and cocaethylene intoxication. Cocaethylene is produced in the body when cocaine and alcohol are consumed together. The medical examiner therefore classified Tucker's death as an accidental substance-intoxication death.
The Northern Virginia Critical Incident Response Team investigated the death and found no criminal wrongdoing by Alexandria Police Department or Alexandria Sheriff's Office personnel. The Alexandria Commonwealth's Attorney's Office declined to pursue criminal charges against the law-enforcement personnel involved.
A separate investigation by Alexandria Independent Police Auditor Ameratu Kamara reached significant findings concerning the officers' treatment of Tucker before his death. The auditor determined that the primary arresting officer violated policy by disregarding Tucker's repeated requests for hospital treatment and by failing to obtain medical care for an arrestee who requested it. The auditor also found that the arresting officer and another officer failed to meet department performance standards governing the transportation and monitoring of people in police custody.
The auditor additionally found that three Alexandria officers improperly muted their body cameras during the incident without providing the verbal justification required by department policy. The report concluded that the approximately 40-minute detention-center intake delay, combined with the absence of clearly defined coordination procedures between police and detention-center personnel, affected the circumstances surrounding Tucker's death. The auditor recommended department-wide body-camera refresher training, implementation of patrol-car dashboard cameras, and a comprehensive review of police policies governing prisoner transportation and medical care.
The Alexandria Sheriff's Office conducted its own review and determined that its personnel had not violated department policy. The three Alexandria police officers involved returned to full active duty following brief periods of administrative leave or temporary administrative assignments. Tucker's family subsequently called for the arresting officers and their supervisor to be held accountable and asked that the officers' identities and disciplinary histories be publicly released. In late June 2026, Alexandria's Independent Community Policing Review Board concluded that the auditor's investigation was incomplete and voted for additional review of the supervising sergeant's actions.
This database does not ordinarily include deaths occurring after admission to a jail or prison. Tucker's death is included because he died within approximately an hour of his arrest, while still handcuffed in an Alexandria Police Department vehicle and before the detention center had completed intake or accepted him into jail custody. His fatal medical condition was already developing during the arrest and transport, he repeatedly requested hospital treatment while police retained custody of him, and he died before the transition from arrest and transportation to formal jail detention was completed. His death is therefore treated as part of the arrest and immediate detention process rather than as a jail or prison death.
