ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The mother of Allan F. Tucker II, a 32-year-old Alexandria man who died in police custody in August 2025, sued two Alexandria police officers and the city Thursday in federal court. The suit alleges the officers left her son handcuffed in the back of a patrol car without medical care he "manifestly needed and also specifically requested."
The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria on what would have been Tucker's 34th birthday, names Alexandria police officers Chelsea Henry and William McGinnis and the City of Alexandria. It seeks unspecified damages under the 14th Amendment, the federal civil rights law known as Section 1983, and Virginia's wrongful death law. It includes punitive damages against the two officers and asks for a jury trial.
The Alexandria Brief obtained a copy of the complaint from Jones, which bears the court's electronic filing stamp. The case did not yet appear on the court's public docket Thursday afternoon.
The Alexandria Brief had not previously named the officers. Police withheld their names in August 2025 “for safety reasons,” and the auditor’s report identified them only by number. The Brief is naming Henry and McGinnis because they are defendants in a public federal lawsuit. It is not naming other officers described in the complaint who are not being sued.
"Allan asked for help, and unfortunately he didn't get the help he asked for," Jones told reporters Thursday at Pleasant Valley Memorial Park in Annandale, where about twenty relatives gathered at his grave. "I don't want another family to go through this."
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