Source : Perth Now news
A man has died in police custody following an alleged assault at a Northern Territory retirement village.
Emergency services were called to the Tiwi Gardens Retirement Village in Casuarina, in Darwin’s north, after a man allegedly damaged window louvres and assaulted a woman about 8.40pm on Monday.
A police spokesman said officers found a man in the vicinity of the elderly people’s home and arrested him without incident.
He was secured in the rear cage of a police vehicle but soon had breathing difficulties.
“St John Ambulance were contacted while police began CPR,” a spokesman said.
The man was rushed to Royal Darwin Hospital but later died about 10.10pm.
“The formal cause of death is yet to be determined and the deceased is yet to be formally identified,” a spokesman said.
