OVERLAND, Mo. (AP) - A St. Louis County man has died three days after a police officer used a stun gun to subdue him.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that police are investigating the death of 39-year-old Willie Sample of St. Ann. Sample died Friday at a hospital.
Overland police arrested Sample Tuesday after finding him allegedly trespassing in back yards. Police say Sample struggled with officers, broke free and got into a car with a woman he didn’t know before police caught up to him. Police deployed a stun gun and Sample was arrested.
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Officers continued to struggle with Sample at the police station. Police say it was there that Sample suffered what police called a “medical event.”
An autopsy on Saturday was unable to determine a cause of death.
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Information from: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, http://www.stltoday.com
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