A mentally ill man who died after a clash with staff at a Missouri jail had been shocked with a Taser at least three times and pepper sprayed when he refused to leave his cell, state Attorney General Josh Hawley says.
Tory Sanders, 28, of Nashville collapsed on Friday evening in the Mississippi County Detention Center and was pronounced dead less than an hour later at a nearby hospital, authorities say.
Hawley revealed new details in the case on Thursday after visiting the jail and speaking with investigators from the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
"We will conduct a full and vigorous investigation," the attorney general promised during a news conference.
Hawley had previously charged the man responsible for the jail, Mississippi County Sheriff Cory Hutcheson, with eighteen criminal counts in two unrelated cases. The sheriff is also a defendant in four federal civil lawsuits, including one that involves the 2015 death of an inmate and another in which he is accused of letting a pregnant inmate languish for so long without access to medical care that her baby was stillborn in 2014.
Hawley successfully petitioned a judge to strip Hutcheson of his duties as the state investigates Sanders' death.…