Shortly after Tyrone Saunders was found dead in the lock-up at the Central Detective Unit, police promised that the circumstances of his July 2012 death would be made public in a coroner's inquest.
However, according to attorney Christina Galanos, who represents Saunders' estate, she was recently informed that a decision was made not to hold an inquest.
Galanos told The Nassau Guardian that she received a letter from Acting Coroner Jeanine Weech-Gomez informing her that former Coroner Linda Virgill had determined that an inquest was not necessary.
The Coroner's Act mandates the holding of an inquest where a person dies in a place of detention.
Saunders was in custody on suspicion of murder.
Inquests into the circumstances of the deaths of Aaron Rolle and Jamie Smith, who died within hours of each other in February 2013, were held within months of their deaths amidst public outcry.
A coroner's jury found that Rolle, 20, who died from a ruptured intestine caused by a beating while in custody, was killed unlawfully. A determination on whether authorities will prosecute based on the jury's finding has been put on hold pending an appeal.
The officers involved claimed that Rolle attacked them after confessing to housebreaking and armed robbery. They said they used to force to subdue him after he tried to escape through a louvered window on the second floor of the Quakoo Street Police Station.
Smith was placed in a chokehold after he allegedly attacked four officers when he allegedly tried to escape from the Central Detective Unit after confessing to two armed robberies. He died from asphyxia, or a lack of oxygen.

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