The father of a 40-year-old woman who died in Brookline police custody says investigators are treating her death as a homicide and is demanding answers.
The radio broadcasts calling for paramedics reported a female patient was unconscious in a cell at the Brookline Police Department. When EMS arrived on July 5 at 2:30 in the afternoon, paramedics found Sarah Jane Hubauer with just a very slight pulse. Unable to revive her with an AED, Sarah died.
Her father Shawn says it’s been like a bad dream. He only found out that his daughter was dead after getting a call from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center asking him to identify her body.
Police said it was crime scene
Shawn tells the I-Team, when he got to the hospital he was met by a doctor. “There were two Brookline police officers there and they told me that I couldn’t touch her, that it was a crime scene,” Shawn said. “I knew within seconds it was my daughter. It was the worst thing I’ve ever done in my life.”
Shawn says the officers didn’t say what happened or that Sarah had been arrested. “I had no idea she was even in police custody,” Shawn said. “No one told me anything. I had to learn about it from the media.”…