Man Ends Up Brain Dead After Arrest By OCPD

A man stops breathing in Oklahoma City police custody, and now his family says CPR should have been performed much sooner.

Thursday, October 16th 2014, 11:30 pm

By: News 9


A man stops breathing in Oklahoma City police custody, and now his family says CPR should have been performed much sooner.

Right now, 35-year-old Quintel Watkins is on dialysis and brain dead.

Apparently, several people called 911 last Friday morning after a number of disturbances were reported, allegedly because of Watkins.

What happened after police were called is what Watkins' mother said now has him on life support.

“When I got there, he was hollering," said Zola Jones. "He was laying on the ground.”

It's been more than seven days since 68-year-old Zola Jones said she has spoken to her son. He's been in a vegetative state at Integris Baptist Medical Center.

“He was laying right there by the corner of the street, and he looked in my face and saw me,” Jones said.

It was around 9:00 on the morning of October 10 when Oklahoma City police officers were called to the corner of N.W. 10th Street and N. MacArthur Boulevard.

“He said mamma, mamma, help me. Help me mamma,” Jones recalled.

Jones said she was called by Watkins' girlfriend, who he was with when he was taken into police custody near a tire shop.

“His arms was tied, his legs was tied. They had him hogged tied. He couldn't move,” said Jones. “He went into cardiac arrest, and he stopped breathing.”

“They had already called for an ambulance, because they noticed his breathing was somewhat labored,” Oklahoma City Police Department Captain Dexter Nelson said.

Capt. Nelson describes Watkins' behavior Friday as very bizarre.

“In the street, stopping cars, climbing on top of the cars and running into businesses,” Nelson described.

Nelson said when Watkins ran into the tire shop, two men didn't back down.

“They fought with him," said Nelson. "They took him down to the ground.”

The men held Watkins for some time until officers arrived and restrained him.

Evan Anderson: "Why do you think your son stopped breathing?"

Zola Jones: "I'm going to be honest and tell you the truth. The doctors told me, now my son, he do what he do, and he said he had some meth in him."

Jones feels officers waited too long to give her son CPR.

“If they knew he wasn't breathing, why didn't they untie him? They didn't have to leave him like that,” said Jones. “I'm expecting him to come home. He isn't coming home to me. That's something that I've got to live with as a mother.”

Investigators are still waiting on toxicology results to see exactly what was in Watkins' system.

The family said it plans to make a decision to take Watkins off life support as early as Friday.

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