Two more detainees died while in the custody of the city over the last week \u2014 adding to an alarming trend that also saw a Rikers Island inmate found dead, cops and sources said. <\/p>\n
Musa Cetin, 29 \u2013 a pedicab driver in custody for operating without a license, according to online court records \u2013 was discovered unconscious and unresponsive inside a cell at the Midtown South NYPD headquarters on West 35th Street near Ninth Avenue at 8:33 p.m. Friday, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He appeared to have hanged himself with a jacket, law enforcement sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pedicab driver Musa Cetin, 29, was found unconscious and unresponsive inside the NYPD\u2019s Midtown South Precinct Friday evening, cops said. Kyle Mazza\/NurPhoto\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
Just 14 minutes earlier, at 8:19 p.m., precinct cops had checked on Cetin as part of their \u201cstandard checks\u201d but found nothing amiss, the sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police officers and EMS workers \u201cperformed life-saving measures,\u201d but Cetin was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries two days later, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
His death is under investigation by the NYPD\u2019s Force Investigation Division.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, around 10:15 p.m. Friday, Christopher Nieves, 46, was found unconscious and unresponsive inside a holding cell at Kings County Criminal Court on Schermerhorn Street near State Street in downtown Brooklyn, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Just 14 minutes earlier, precinct cops had checked on Cetin, and he was in \u201cgood condition,\u201d sources said. Kyle Mazza\/NurPhoto\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
He was pronounced dead at the scene by responding EMS workers.<\/p>\n
Nieves appeared to have suffered a heart attack, according to law enforcement sources.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His official cause and manner of death will be determined by the city medical examiner\u2019s office, and the department\u2019s Force Investigation Division is probing the case.<\/p>\n
Nieves was found lifeless inside a holding cell at Kings County Criminal Court Friday night, cops said. Michael Nagle<\/p>\n
Nieves was in custody for stealing food from a Whole Foods on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg a day earlier, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
News of the two deaths comes after 44-year-old Jimmy Avila died in custody <\/a>inside Rikers Island\u2019s West Facility around 4:30 p.m. Saturday, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n