THE PARENTS OF A POLICE CADET who died last month after participating in a training exercise for the San Francisco Police Department Academy have filed a claim against the city, hoping that it will help reveal more answers surrounding the death of their “perfectly healthy” son.

Jon-Marques Psalms, 30, died at a San Francisco hospital on Aug. 22, two days after completing a high-intensity exercise while training to become an SFPD officer. SFPD has not specified exactly what type of exercise Psalms was engaged in, but said that he had suffered a “medical emergency,” according to a statement the department released on the day of his passing. 

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Alise is a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering government, elections, housing, crime, courts and entertainment in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Alise is a Bay Area native from San Carlos. She studied history at University of California, Santa Cruz and first started journalism at Skyline College’s school newspaper in San Bruno. She has interned for Bay City News and for Eesti Rahvusringhääling, or Estonian Public Broadcasting. She has covered everything from the removal of former San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to the divisive battle over the Great Highway on San Francisco’s west side. Please send her any tips.