Kansas City police are investigating the death of a 32-year-old school administrator who died days after he was found unresponsive in his holding cell at a Northland police station in December.

Terry “TJ” Farmer, director at the La Petite Academy in Liberty, had been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and was taken to a hospital twice while in custody, according to police. He died at the hospital Dec. 31.

The death is being investigated as a possible suicide, according to the Kansas City Police Department. The medical examiner has not released the cause of death. Police released an incident report Tuesday with few details.

Farmer was arrested shortly after 8:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 27, when police were dispatched to an injury crash at Northeast Hill Road and North Oak Trafficway in Kansas City, North, according to Sgt. Jake Becchina, a police department spokesman.

Officers saw visible signs of impairment from Farmer, who was one of the drivers, and took him to the Shoal Creek patrol division at 6801 NE Pleasant Valley Road.

About 10:45 p.m., officers decided Farmer needed medical treatment and an ambulance took him to a hospital, according to police.

Farmer was released back into police custody, Becchina said. Police took him back to Shoal Creek for booking about 12:34 a.m.

At 2:10 a.m., Becchina said, Farmer was found unresponsive in his cell. Officers gave first aid and an ambulance took Farmer to the hospital again. He was in critical condition.

Becchina said the Homicide Unit launched an attempted suicide investigation.

Farmer was in a medical coma until he died on Dec. 31.

Becchina said the department’s police and incident reports are generally available for release within two weeks of an event.

However, police did not provide copies of the report to The Star in time for publication.

‘Big personality’

Hundreds of people showed up to Farmer’s funeral last weekend.

Originally from St. Louis, Farmer knew the names of all 200 kids, their parents and the 30 teachers he worked with at La Petite Academy.

In 2015, TJ graduated from St. Mary’s with a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education. After a few years working for Child Protective Services, he became a co-director at Creative World, an early childhood center, before earning the director spot at La Petite Academy.

“I feel like maybe he didn’t realize how much of an impact he had,” said Farmer’s husband Brad. “And I’ve gotten to see through all of the Facebook posts.”

Dalton Quallien-Waters, longtime friend and former roommate of Farmer’s, said Farmer “could talk to anyone.

“Everyone liked TJ because he was such a big personality,” he said.

Farmer helped push his husband to take on new challenges, Brad Farmer said.

“He’s the reason I went back to college and got my degree,” Brad said. “He’s the reason we bought a house. He was the driving force behind a lot of the great things that have happened to me and in our lives.”

Through Farmer’s influence, his husband Brad knows more about royals (think Queen Elizabeth) than he ever thought he would. Farmer’s favorites were Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I.

Farmer was, Brad said, the “most feminist non-female I’ve ever met in my life.”

The couple was raising a Yorkie poodle and a Jack Russell schnauzer together.

Police said the investigation is ongoing.