‘She was happy’: Mom denies 18-year-old daughter took her own life while in NYPD custody

According to police, Sanyah Cheatham was found unconscious inside a cell at a stationhouse on Longwood Avenue just before 1 a.m. Saturday. She was pronounced dead a short time later at Lincoln Hospital.

But just hours before her arrest, Cheatham’s mother said her daughter was all smiles at a family July Fourth cookout in Crotona Park.

“She was happy and I was happy to see her,” said Thomasina Cheatham…

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