The suspected burglar whom police found dead last week in a Vancouver apartment kicked in the door and fought with two male residents inside before he died, police said.
Emmanuel Furrow, 31, of Vancouver was the aggressor in the incident, which took place at 12:25 a.m. March 11 at the Marketplace Apartments, in the 2900 block of General Anderson Avenue, Vancouver Police Department spokeswoman Kim Kapp said.
Furrow is the ex-boyfriend of a woman who was staying at the apartment with her new boyfriend and that man’s father, Kapp said.
Furrow kicked in the door and assaulted the woman’s new boyfriend and his father, Kapp said. The two men tried to fight off Furrow, but by the time police arrived, Furrow was facedown on the apartment floor apparently unconscious and not breathing, police said.
Officers immediately began CPR and applied an automated external defibrillator until medical personnel arrived and took over lifesaving efforts, but Furrow was ultimately pronounced deceased at the scene, according to police.
The two men who fought with Furrow had cuts and bruises, while Furrow did not show any injuries, Kapp said.
Kapp said that Furrow’s cause of death was not obvious — there were no gunshot or stab wounds. Detectives are waiting for the Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office to make a determination on the cause of death in order to move forward with the investigation. That could take weeks, the agency said.
Furrow and the woman have children together, but those children were not at the apartment, Kapp said. Children related to the woman’s boyfriend were at the apartment at the time of the incident, she added.
