Analysis Completed on Taser Involved in Alexandria Mom's Death

Detectives with the Fairfax County Police Department’s Major Crimes Division have received the completed testing and analysis of the electronic control weapon involved in the in-custody death of Natasha McKenna of Alexandria, according to a news release issued by FCPD Monday afternoon.

On Monday, July 13, detectives submitted their investigative files and all evidence analysis to the Office of the Commonwealth’s Attorney for Fairfax County for review and determination of criminal liability, according to the news release.

Read: Mentally Ill Alexandria Mom Tasered 4 Times While Cuffed, Shackled: Report

McKenna was in the custody of the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday, Feb. 3, when she experienced a medical emergency as she was being prepared for transport from the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center by deputies with the Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team (SERT), FCPD said. She later died on Sunday, Feb. 8.

She was being held in jail on a felony warrant obtained for McKenna on Jan. 20 by Alexandria officials for a Jan. 15 incident in which she was alleged to have punched an officer in the face. On Jan. 26, the warrant was served by Fairfax County Police officers.

The Fairfax County Sheriff’s office requested for Alexandria police to pick up McKenna over the next week — three times, but they never did — a fact that is under a separate investigation by Alexandria officials, according to The Washington Post.

Alexandria News reports that Alexandria officials were contacted by email, fax and phone.

During that time, McKenna had two brief but violent encounters with deputies in the Fairfax County jail, the Post story said.

With McKenna’s mental health deteriorating, Fairfax sheriff’s officials determined they would move her back to Alexandria themselves, the Post reported. A six-member team went to her cell on the morning of Feb. 3 and taped the encounter. That tape has not been released.

Col. Edwin C. Roessler Jr, Chief of Police, has provided a message to the community regarding the status of the case.

Watch a video message here from Roessler: