Intoxicated, Combative Man Handcuffed By Police At LBFD Request To Allow Medical Treatment; In Transit To Hospital, He Stops Breathing & Dies

When officers attempted to help the man he began kicking, swinging his arms and striking his head against the ground in an effort to resist the officers assistance. Officers called the Long Beach Fire Department to the scene due to his extreme level of intoxication and for treatment of his self inflicted injuries. When Fire Department personnel arrived, they were unable to assist the man due to the fact that he was combative with them as well. The Fire Department personnel asked the police officers to handcuff the man so they could treat him and to stop him from inflicting further injury to himself. Officers then handcuffed the man so that he could receive the medical attention he needed, and he was placed in a Fire Department ambulance, and taken to Long Beach Memorial Hospital.

While driving to the hospital the man stopped breathing, and paramedics immediately began CPR procedures. The man was pronounced dead at Memorial Hospital at 3:33 a.m. He has been identified as Israel Alatorre, 30 years-old, of Norwalk.