Recently, there was a robbery at gunpoint in Akron, Ohio. The victims told police that they were robbed by three men.

The police investigated, and rounded up three suspects in a nearby home. They arrested each, and placed them in separate police cars.

Two of these suspects are still alive. One is not.

Xavier McMullen, 17, is the young man who died. He was placed into the police cruiser with his hands cuffed behind his back. Officers say they found him with a .45 next to him and a gunshot wound to the head.

The Summit County Medical Examiner's Office has ruled the death a suicide.

McMullen's family wants to know how a person with their hands cuffed behind their back could shoot themselves in the head. They'd also like to know whether or not the gun belonged to McMullen.

The Akron police department won't say whether or not officers patted McMullen down that night.

"It all depends on the circumstances," Captain Jesse Lesser said, according to Cleveland.com. "It's hard just to say 'every time you do it this way.' It's a rapidly evolving situation."

McMullen's grieving older brother, Greg Wiley wants more than that from the APD.

"Why wasn't he patted down properly?" Wiley asked. "The cops did not do their job. I feel the cops took my brother."

Wiley, 12 years older than McMullen, said that his last conversation with his brother haunts him. And that it is one more thing that doesn't add up about McMullen's death.

"'I want to see you do big things," Wiley said he told his brother, "Don't get in trouble. Just do right, and you'll be just fine. He told me, 'I will, big brother.'"

Things were going well at home, according to Wiley. "I don't believe he killed himself. I can't," he said. "But maybe, if he had a gun on him, he was trying to get it off of him and while wiggling and struggling, the trigger pulled. I'd understand a gunshot wound to his back, stomach, something like that. But not the head — how is that possible?"

The APD says that an investigation into McMullen's death is ongoing. As of now, none of the six officers at the scene have been suspended. Wiley isn't pleased about that, either.

"That's not fair to us as a family," Wiley said. "A badge does not make you better than the rest of us."

Wiley hopes that this case won't end like so many similar cases have. "Enough violence is going on around us. We want the real truth. Someone needs to pay the consequences. There needs to be justice."

City of Akron Police Department

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