The family of a 32-year-old man who died in Alexandria Police Department custody last summer has filed a federal lawsuit against the city and the officers involved in his arrest.
The family of Allan Tucker II is asking the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia for relief against the City of Alexandria and two officers involved in his arrest and death on Aug. 15, 2025.
Tucker was arrested for alleged public intoxication in the hallway of his apartment complex home and later died in police custody while waiting 35 to 45 minutes in the back of an APD cruiser parked in the sally port of the Alexandria jail.
“But for the defendants’ delay in securing medical assistance, there is no reason to believe that Mr. Tucker’s life couldn’t have been saved,” Tucker’s family writes in their complaint. “They knew of should have known that his ‘very bad trip’ and disturbingly agitated behavior required him to be promptly medically assessed and detoxified.”
A court date has not been set.
The two officers were placed on administrative leave after the incident and resumed full duties six months later. In January, Alexandria Commonwealth’s Attorney Bryan Porter announced he would not seek charges against the officers involved in Tucker’s death. Porter made the determination after investigations by the medical examiner and the Northern Virginia Critical Incident Response Team.
In June, the city’s independent policing auditor Ameratu Kamara reported that APD officers violated performance standards and body camera directives and disregarded Tucker’s multiple requests to be taken to the hospital.
The Alexandria City Council found that her report on Tucker’s death was incomplete and needed further investigation, and Kamara resigned earlier this month. The case has been referred to the city’s Independent Community Policing Review Board (ICPRB), making it the body’s first since City Council founded it in 2021.
In her report, Kamara found that two officers and their supervisor, a sergeant, ignored Tucker’s repeated requests to be taken to the hospital and that a “lengthy shift change” at the jail resulted in Tucker never getting a standard medical screening by a nurse.
The auditor was supposed to also look into the actions of the supervising sergeant, provide clarity behind communication issues with the Alexandria Sheriff’s Office and seek additional information on APD training recommendations in a follow-up report in September, but she resigned, and ICPRB canceled its meetings in September and October.
The ICPRB’s next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 4, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Del Pepper Community Resource Center (4850 Mark Center Drive). The meeting will be held via Zoom, with meeting ID 989 0383 0565 and passcode 197734.
