Update, Oct. 22 at 5:10 p.m. to include an item on the Oct. 27 City Council docket.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The mother of Allan F. Tucker II, a 32-year-old Alexandria man who died in police custody in August 2025, sued two Alexandria police officers and the city Thursday in federal court. The suit alleges the officers left her son handcuffed in the back of a patrol car without medical care he “manifestly needed and also specifically requested.”
The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria on what would have been Tucker’s 34th birthday, names Alexandria police officers Chelsea Henry and William McGinnis and the City of Alexandria. It seeks unspecified damages under the 14th Amendment, the federal civil rights law known as Section 1983, and Virginia’s wrongful death law. It includes punitive damages against the two officers and asks for a jury trial…