CHELTENHAM, Md. (WUSA9) -- A man died due to a possible PCP overdose while being transported to a local hospital, Prince George's County police said.
Police say they had to use two sets of handcuffs to restrain the nearly 500-pound man before they were able to load him into an ambulance, where he died several minutes into being transported.
At around 10:25 p.m. on Wednesday, police say they received two calls for a reported PCP overdose in the 10000 block of Westwood Drive in Cheltenham. In one of the calls, the man could be heard screaming and pounding on walls in another room. Police advised that caller to stay away from the man for their own safety.
Prince George's County police released the audio from those 911 calls. The man can be heard screaming in the background.
Once officers got to the home, the found the man upstairs, naked and incoherent. After restraining him, six officers placed the man on a comforter and carried him downstairs.
He was placed on a stretcher waiting outside the home and the handcuffs were removed from him so paramedics could attend to him, police said.
Several minutes after being loaded onto the ambulance, police said paramedics could not detect a pulse. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Any autopsy found no signs of injuries to the man's body and family members told investigators they saw no use of force by officers, police said. A toxicology report is pending, but the results could take several weeks.
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