Lawyer: Man was hogtied by police before death

WREG 3 News – by MICHAEL QUANDER AND ASHLEY FOREST

SOUTHAVEN, Miss. — An investigation is underway to get more details into how a man died in the 3400 block of Goodman Road.

Troy Goode is dead, and his family is trying to get to the bottom of what happened.

Tim Edwards, with Ballin, Ballin & Fishman P.C, is the family’s attorney.  

Edwards said Goode and his wife were leaving the Widespread Panic concert at Snowden Grove Amphitheater as it began.

“He was under the influence and so the wife began to drive them home,” Edwards told WREG.

At some point on Goodman Road Edwards said Goode got out of the car and began running around.

Southaven Police said they were called to a shopping complex on Goodman around 7:45 p.m. on Saturday.

“They showed up in force and subdued him,” Edwards said. “They hogtied and put his face down on the stretcher.”

Edwards claimed a witness heard Goode scream that he could not breathe.

“The police took him off and next thing that we know he was a Baptist Hospital,” Edwards said.

Goode’s mother got the call that he died around 11:00 p.m. Saturday night.

“The family as you might expect is grieving, and they are not irrational at all, but they want answers. They want to know why Troy died,” Edwards explained.

WREG started questioning Southaven Police about the events that took place before Goode’s death, but a department spokesperson said they were not commenting or releasing any more information Sunday evening.

Goode’s body is being taken to Jackson, Mississippi for an autopsy.

“I’m not in the position right now pointing fingers because I don’t know the cause of death,” Edwards said.

Edwards believes there was someone shooting video of the incident that night and urges that person to come forward to help the family piece together what happened.

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2 thoughts on “Lawyer: Man was hogtied by police before death

  1. We’ve already grown accustomed to the fact that pigs kill people whenever they choose to, and get away with it.

    The fact that they keep on killing innocent people, even after several of their murders were highly-publicized, means they’re very accustomed to it as well.

    You would think after Ferguson, Baltimore, and all of the pig murders that have been made famous, that they might slow down the nationwide murder spree, but they keep on killing people, undeterred by the law, the courts, or pubic outcry. Since this is the case, you can not only expect the murders to continue, but to increase in number, until they’re physically stopped.

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