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Ronald Wilson, 38, went into full cardiac arrest while being taken to the hospital for injuries he sustained during a struggle with officers, according to a police spokesman. He died shortly after the heart attack. The incident occurred after Wilson was involved in a car accident, police said.
Trenton police internal affairs is investigating.
Wilson had highly elevated levels of the drug PCP in his body, according to toxicology tests ordered by the Mercer County Medical Examiner's office, multiple police sources said late yesterday.
Also, a second autopsy on the body of 38-year-old Ronald Wilson, which was arranged by his family and completed yesterday, found essentially the same results as the one completed by Mercer County Medical Examiner Dr. Rafaat Ahmad, sources said.
The police sources spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the information. But some of them sought to publicize the information to counterbalance how the family has been portraying the incident: that police officers used excessive force that resulted in Wilson's death.
Members of Wilson's family, along with sympathizers, have twice taken to the streets to publicly accuse the five police officers involved in struggling to control Wilson of being killers.
Late last night, however, lawyer Robin Lord, who is representing the Wilson family, confirmed the second autopsy had been completed and said the examiner, Dr. James Gill, found "clear evidence" of blunt force trauma to Wilson's body. Gill is a deputy chief medical examiner for New York City.
Again, police sources said last night that Gill had indeed found bruising on Wilson's head, but it was minor and consistent with a struggle with police officers and was not fatal to him.
As for the PCP results, Lord said they are "highly suspect" and the family will be conducting an independent investigation. She said there are independent witnesses who said Wilson exhibited no unusual or strange behavior.