He promised to bring her a Snickers bar and ginger ale, but he never came home.
A daughter of Ronald Singleton, who died in police custody while high on PCP last month, said her last words to her father were a request to get late-night snacks.
Rondalyn, 12, called her dad around 9 p.m. — hours before cops put him in a protective body wrap for going berserk in a cab near St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
The seventh-grader — the last relative to speak to Singleton — called “just to…ask him to bring me ginger ale and Snickers.”
Rondalyn said Singleton, who was in a cab at the time, told her, “OK, babe, I will get it for you…Be home in a minute.”
But three hours later, at around midnight, his fatal encounter with cops unfolded. The father of three died July 13, four days before Eric Garner was killed after a Staten Island cop placed him in a chokehold.
Singleton, 45, was put in a straight-jacket-like device after a cabby flagged down cops. He went into cardiac arrest in an ambulance heading for Bellevue Hospital.
The police union defended the officers involved for following protocols to protect drug users and cops. “The single act of using PCP places the user’s life in jeopardy,” said PBA President Pat Lynch.
“The responsibility for the outcome lies entirely with the drug abuser,” he added, “not the police officers attempting to remove him as a danger to the public and himself.”
The city medical examiner ruled Singleton’s death a homicide caused by the physical restraint. Hypertension, heart disease and obesity were also contributing factors.