I originally thought we had posted a story back in July about the initial incident, but I cannot locate it. The general short version was a man being arrested after a concert. As paramedics responded to an emergency call, there’s video of him being placed face down on a gurney, as he yelled he couldn’t breathe. He was hog-tied with his hands and legs behind him. His wife witnessed him being loaded into an ambulance. She was told upon arrival at the hospital he was dead. 
The entire story was sketchy from the outset.  Now the autopsy…
troy goodeSOUTHAVEN, Miss. (FOX13) – After attending a concert on July 18, Troy Goode was arrested. He was hogtied by Southaven police and later died at Baptist Memorial Hospital.
His family has been hoping an autopsy report would shed some light as to why Troy died that night. But after receiving that document, questions remain unanswered.
“What really stands out to us is that there is not really a cause of death on there.” Kevin McCormack, the Goode family attorney, told FOX13. “There’s no finding of any toxicology. There’s not any findings of any abnormal heart condition, which makes sense because we know that Troy was a healthy 30-year-old man.”
Days after Goode died, DeSoto County District Attorney John Champion said he had seen a copy of this very report. Here’s what he told me his medical examiner passed along to him about the death.
“According to what we were told by the medical examiner, it’s gonna be akin to a heart-related issue,” Champion said when addressing the media.
That contradicts this report FOX13 obtained, which lists “Pending toxicology” where it should list the primary cause of death. Even in the secondary findings, there is nothing to indicate that Goode’s death was heart related.
“He had no heart condition other than asthma. He had no medical conditions at all throughout his entire life that we can find,” McCormack said. (read more)
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