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CHICAGO — Alabama state authorities are investigating the death of former New Orleans Saints player and Chicago native Glenn Foster Jr. two days after he was taken into police custody.
The 31-year-old died Monday at a medical facility north of Tuscaloosa in western Alabama, according to a statement from the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.
He was arrested on Saturday after officers spotted him driving up to 90 mph in a 45-mph zone, Reform police said in a news release Wednesday. Reform is a town in Pickens County.
A high-speed chase between Foster and police ensued, with a spike strip being used to slow Foster’s car before officers arrested him, police said.
The police chief told NOLA.com he contacted Foster’s family because of his concern about the former player’s erratic behavior and made an arrangement for them to bail him out of prison and have him sent to a local hospital for evaluation.
Arrangements were made for Foster to be taken to another facility Monday, Foster Sr. said, and the sheriff’s office, which was in charge of transporting Foster, told the family he got into the cruiser without incident.
But when he arrived at the medical facility, Foster was unresponsive and couldn’t be revived, the Post reported.
“He arrived to his death,” Foster Sr. told the newspaper. “I don’t know what happened with him physically while he was in the jail because they wouldn’t let us see him.”
His mother, Sabrina Foster, told NOLA.com, “I can’t get my son back, but we want whoever is responsible to pay for this.”
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