The Region - News from Aug. 10, 1986

A transvestite who struggled with police who stopped a car in which he was riding stopped breathing in a jail holding cell and died at a nearby hospital, police reported. Police said that while the man, who has not been identified, was being questioned in a motel parking lot about an alleged solicitation of a sex act, he hit and bit a police officer. Police subdued the suspect and placed him in a holding cell at the 77th Street Division jail. “A few minutes later it was determined he did not appear to be breathing,� according to LAPD Lt. Charles Higbie. He was taken to Daniel Freeman Memorial Hospital, where he died. The cause of death has not been established; police have released the three others who were in the car.