The provincial agency in charge of investigating police is examining the death of a man in the custody of Montreal police.

On Tuesday Nov. 7, officers arrested a man and kept him in a cell overnight.

At 7:35 the next morning he was transferred to another cell with ten other people who were going to be transported to Montreal Municipal courthouse, but an hour and a half later the man was found unconscious on the floor of the cell.

He was rushed to hospital and pronounced dead at 9:55 a.m.

Everyone who was in that cell was interrogated by the Bureau of Independent Investigation (BEI).

On Nov. 13, the BEI confirmed the deceased was Tshiteya "David" Kalubi, 23.