Baltimore man injured in police encounter dies 1 week later

BALTIMORE — A man who was loaded into a Baltimore police van for transport to a police station, then needed an ambulance, has died a week after he was injured, city and hospital officials said Sunday.

Freddie Gray died Sunday, said Karen Lancaster, a spokeswoman for the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and the police commissioner planned an early afternoon news conference to discuss the case.

Gray died a week after his arrest. According to a timeline police released Thursday, officers stopped Gray at 8:39 a.m. on April 12, and he then tried to run away. They caught him one minute later and arrested him, and he was placed in the prisoner transport wagon at 8:54 a.m., bound for the Western District station. At 9:24 a.m., an ambulance was called to the station to treat Gray.

Gray's family has said he sustained spinal injuries. Gray, 25, of Baltimore, was in critical condition throughout the week.

The incident is under investigation.

The police department had placed the officers on administrative leave, as is routine.

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