The death of a man in the custody of Baltimore Police has been ruled a homicide, the Maryland Chief Medical Examiner's Office said Thursday.

The finding came just one day after the Maryland Attorney General's Office released body-worn camera footage of the encounter between 31-year-old Dontae Melton Jr. and Baltimore Police officers on June 24.

The incident began when Melton approached an officer at a red light and was detained as police waited for a medical unit to arrive. According to investigators, an ambulance never arrived, and Melton died after being driven to Grace Medical Center in a police vehicle.

The Maryland Attorney General's Independent Investigations Division (IID) is investigating the incident, which is standard for all fatal or near-fatal incidents that involve law

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