According to authorities, Joseph Sheldon Hutcheson ran into the building sometime after 10 a.m., yelled for help, but was placed in handcuffs, lost consciousness and died.
Raul Reyna, the Dallas County sheriff’s office spokesman, said Hutcheson parked his pickup in the crosswalk and ran into the jail’s south tower, yelling that his wife was trying to kill him, Reyna said.
A deputy restrained Hutcheson with handcuffs, “believing that he may be a threat to himself or others until they could calm the man down,” Reyna said in an email.
An eye witness, April Berryhill, who was at the jail to submit a property release form, said she saw one sheriff’s deputy with his knee on Hutcheson’s back and another one with a knee on his throat.
Berryhill said Hutcheson told deputies he couldn’t breathe before they uncuffed him and laid him down on his back.
By then, the color of his face had turned from pale white to pale blue, Berryhill said.
“He came in saying, ‘Don’t be scared of me. I just need some help.’ They just tackled him as if he’d threatened their lives,” Berryhill said. “He didn’t have a weapon. He wasn’t swinging at the officers. He just needed help.”Reyna said deputies performed CPR at the scene until Dallas Fire-Rescue arrived and took him to Parkland Memorial Hospital.
He was pronounced dead at 11:31 a.m.
The jail remained closed to visitors Saturday afternoon. Investigators were at the scene, with some officers stationed behind Hutcheson’s black pickup, which remained parked on Commerce Street.
Reyna said deputies saw what “appeared to be narcotics” in the truck.
The Dallas County medical examiner’s office will determine Hutcheson’s cause of death, and the findings will be included in the sheriff’s investigation, Reyna said.
Dallas Morning News
31 comments:
Thr wife should be arrested for attempted murder
These police guys are gradually becoming a nuisance
A pathetic case of frying pan to fire
Most times when we walk into big malls, boutiques, supermarkets, we never question their prices. We pay exactly what we see on the price tags and even hand out tips to the staff.
But the moment we are out of these shops and want to buy banana, our bargaining game gets off to the roof. Poor widow with 12 hungry children at home tells you banana is N100. She even takes out her time to explain how difficult it was for her to even buy it, how the economy is so tough.
But we insist that if it's not N50, we are not paying. Some of us even step back into our cars and make to drive away. But because 'half bread is better chin chin', this woman is forced to call you back and sell to you at little or no gain. In her heart, she cries, she's worried about how she'll survive with her children. She silently reassures herself that 'It's well.
God will definitely provide.'' While you happily chop the luscious banana. Take some seconds out and think about this, guys. Please don't bargain hard with small vendors like this. They do business not to buy designer bags, Gucci shoes but to LIVE and EAT!
Rip
Na wa ooo, it's not only Nigeria police way sick? RIP to d dead. Linda all dis all dead sorry this early first sunday morning get as it be ooo, I want good new abeg
a.k.a EDWIN CHINEDU AZUBUKO said..
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Nna what kind of thing is this for christ sake.... RIP
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***CURRENTLY IN JUPITER***
When will they learn? You cannot put a knee on a throat, that is life threatening! !!!
Chai!
Haba!! The hand soiled /w the Blood of the Innocent continues 2 unravel. When the ear refuses 2 hear & heed, what happens? When they'll cut off the head, the ear will go 2. When the hearts of the UnGodly is hardened, the Almighty will smite them. Amen.
After all no be only Nigerian police dey craze
U can imagine
RIP
The American cops are home grown terrorist.
Imagine!! Agbanari ajo mmadu agbakwuru ajo mmuo..... I tot it's only Nigerian police dat behave stupidly like dis... Rip man ...
Fuck the police!
White on white crime.
Haba!
RIP
Now they've killed of theirs..... Let's watch what happens now ###
Now they've killed one of their own..... Let's watch what happens next #sandrabland lives on ###
Na wa o
Sad. May his soul rest in peace.
Surely death stalked him. How incredible!
If it were a black man that died, people will def want to report it as a police murdered
White people love to apolaud when this happens to blacks. I guess they're next. Rotten racist cops are running out of blacks to kill.
Rest in peace
RIP Buddy
Just like that, someone who ran for refuge and met his death...
#Dankwata
God will punish the useless oloshi police men, so it's not only Nigerian police that is useless
Dirty Cops everywhere.
Police are wicked. I'm sure his wife will live to regret this.
American police are animals. Savages !!
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