City Council will hold a special meeting on Wednesday, July 29 to approve more investigation into the August 2025 death of a man in Alexandria Police Department custody.
Earlier this month, the city’s Independent Community Policing Review Board (ICPRB) voted unanimously to send back an “incomplete” report on the death of Allan Tucker II. Board Chair Deborah Porter told City Council in a July 17 letter that it needs the council’s go-ahead to approve an additional investigation into a sergeant supervisor’s actions, more details on the auditor’s interaction with the Alexandria Sheriff’s Office and clarity behind Independent Police Auditor Ameratu Kamara’s decision to not publicly share disciplinary recommendations against the officers that she gave to Police Chief Tarrick McGuire.
Porter also asked City Council to set a defined timeframe for the investigation.
“A timely response is essential,” Porter wrote. “The Board raises this because the governing ordinance does not establish any timeline for this stage in the process, and the Board is concerned that, absent a clear and agreed-upon schedule, this matter — and the accountability the community and Mr. Tucker’s family are owed — could be delayed indefinitely.”
On Aug. 15, 2025, the 32-year-old was arrested for public intoxication and later died in the back of a police cruiser while waiting 35 to 45 minutes in the sally port of the Alexandria jail during an Alexandria Sheriff’s Office shift change.
Kamara found that responding APD officers violated departmental policy by ignoring Tucker’s requests to be taken to a hospital and by muting their body cameras to have a private conversation with a sergeant supervisor while Tucker was in custody. The sergeant supervisor, a 24-year APD veteran, spoke to Tucker to see if he took “any substances or medication that may have impacted his behavior,” Kamara reported.
After speaking with Tucker, the sergeant and two officers then muted their body cameras for a brief period, against department policy, and the sergeant directed one of the officers to transport Tucker to the Alexandria jail.
The two officers who arrested Tucker were placed on administrative leave after the incident and resumed full duties six months later, Kamara reported. In January, Alexandria Commonwealth’s Attorney Bryan Porter announced he would not seek charges against them.
Tucker’s family wants the officers involved to be charged.
Kamara wrote to City Council that she didn’t include recommended disciplinary actions in the report because “personnel-related disciplinary recommendations are confidential under Virginia law and may not be publicly disclosed.”
“To illustrate this more clearly, if my recommendations were made public and were subsequently accepted and adopted by the Chief, then the discipline in the personnel files of those officers would essentially be made public information,” Kamara wrote. “Therefore, while I have shared my recommendations with the Board privately, it is prudent for those recommendations to remain outside of the public domain. While ultimately the Board may not agree with the explanation provided, I am amenable to adding it to the report.”
This is the police review board’s first case since City Council founded it in 2021.
