Troubled Yale professor, 34, dies in police custody after domestic dispute with his newlywed husband

By Snejana Farberov
PUBLISHED: 15:46 EST, 27 November 2013 | UPDATED: 17:36 EST, 27 November 2013

Mystery: Samuel See, 34, an assistant professor at Yale University, was found dead inside a jail cell after being arrested in a domestic dispute

A young Yale University professor has died while in police custody over the weekend following a domestic dispute with his estranged husband.
Police said Samuel See, 34, was arrested Saturday night after allegedly attacking officers who responded to reports of a disturbance in his home.
On Sunday, the 34-year-old English professor was found unresponsive in a cell at the Union Avenue Detention Facility and was pronounced dead a short time later.
New Haven police officers responded to See's home just after 5pm Saturday after getting a call from See's sister about a confrontation, NBC Connecticut reported. 
According to detectives, See's estranged husband, 32-year-old Sunder Ganglani, had stopped by the house to pick up his belongings and stayed there for more than two hours in violation of an order of protection.
Mr See asked police to remove his spouse from his residence, to which the officers responded that Ganglani also had an order of protection against him.
At that point, police said the 34-year-old man 'became enraged,' yelling that he should not be arrested because it is his house.
See allegedly put up a fight as the officers were trying to slap handcuffs on him.
As he was being led to the police cruiser waiting outside, See was quoted as screaming at one of the cops: 'I will kill you... I will destroy you.’

Sudden death: The English professor was found unresponsive in a cell at the Union Avenue Detention Facility in New Haven

Before being hauled off to jail, See was taken to a hospital to be treated for a cut above his eye.
At around 9pm, the 34-year-old Yale professor was taken to the Union Avenue facility and charged with violating a protective order, interfering with police and threatening.
The man remained incarcerated overnight, and at 6am the following morning Judicial Marshals found him unresponsive.

  The Marshals and first responders who arrived on the scene gave See CPR and attempted to revive him, but to no avail.  

The chief state medical examiner’s office has yet to determine the cause of death, New Haven Register reported, and police spokesman David Hartman said the investigation into See's untimely passing could take weeks.
The 34-year-old is not believed to have taken his own life. According to New Haven Independent, the young educator had had run-ins with police.

Rocky relationship: See (left) and Sunder Ganglani, 32 (right) got married this past May but had already obtained protective orders against one another

Young intellectuals: See had met his husband in Yale, where Ganglani (pictured) worked as a teaching assistant and artistic producer at The Foundry Theater

See, who obtained his PhD in English from UCLA in 2009, was an assistant professor of English and American studies at Yale focusing on modernist literature. He was on leave from the Ivy League university this semester.
‘The University community is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Samuel See. Our condolences go out to his family, faculty colleagues, and students, and his friends at Yale and elsewhere,’ the administration of Yale said in a statement.
See had met his husband in Yale, where Ganglani worked as a teaching assistant and artistic producer at The Foundry Theater.

Promising career: See, who obtained his PhD from UCLA in 2009, was an assistant professor of English and American studies at Yale focusing on modernist literature

According to Ganglani’s Facebook page, the two men got married this past May.
On Monday, the 32-year-old now-widower posted a message on his page saying, in part, that 'there is nothing that can take love away.'