A mentally ill inmate collapsed and died after struggling with jailers on Friday night in Mississippi County, the county coroner says.
Tory Sanders, 28, reportedly became "agitated and uncooperative" at the detention center in Charleston, coroner Terry Parker tells the Riverfront Times.
"In efforts to restraint him, he collapsed, which we think there must have been some kind of medical or medicine issue involved here," Parker says.
Sanders was rushed from the Mississippi County Detention Center, which is about 150 miles south of St. Louis, to the Missouri Delta Medical Center in nearby Sikeston, the coroner says. He was pronounced dead at 8:20 p.m. at the hospital.
The cause of death is still under investigation, but an autopsy on Saturday morning showed no signs of foul play or trauma, Parker says.…