A 30-year-old Memphis man who had reportedly been hogtied and put on a stretcher by police died Saturday after telling officers he couldn’t breathe due to asthma.
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Goode died at the hospital two hours after emergency crews took him to the hospital.
According to a witness, Goode appeared to be reacting so negatively to his arrest, he wondered if she alleged suspect was claustrophobic. Edwards told FOX13 Goode and his wife were on their way home from a concert at Snowden Grove Ampitheater Saturday night. “You hate to video someone at the lowest point in their life, but I’m always concerned with how police are policing”.
Goode is survived by 15-month-old son Ryan.
The recording is also from a great distance and doesn’t utilize zoom to provide a better visual record, but the witnesses noted Goode’s hogtied position while being carted face down into an ambulance on a stretcher by multiple law enforcement officers and first responders.
When asked why Goode was restrained the way he was, a Southaven police spokesperson said, “It is normal protocol and procedure to use the restraint that is deemed necessary to stop an individual from continuing to hurt himself or herself or to protect medical personnel while they treat them”.
Edwards said Goode was under the influence, so his wife was driving.
The video below shows the last moments Troy Goode is seen in public, dead or alive.
While the toxicology report is expected in two months, police say it is an ongoing investigation as they try to find out about the alleged overdose including where the drugs came from and who acquired them.
“We want to know what happened before we jump into any type of legal action”, the attorney said. “The bottom line is, they had him in custody and then he died, and that tells me somebody somewhere screwed up”.
“I don’t know the cause of death, and I’m not going to speculate on it nor am I going to point the finger at this point in time”, he said.
Goode was “not a physical threat” and there was “no threatening behavior” Edwards told the Clarion-Ledger.
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A graduate of the University of Memphis, Goode worked as a chemical engineer. “He weighed 160 pounds”. He and his wife had a 15-month old child.
