Mark D. McCullaugh, an inmate in the mental health unit Summit County jail, was tased, pepper sprayed and beaten to death in 2006 while his hands were handcuffed behind his back & his legs were shackled.
One deputy sheriff (Stephen Krendick) was acquitted of murder earlier this month. Four other deputies (Mark Mayer, Dominic Martucci, Brett Hadley, Brian Polinger) are awaiting trial on charges related to the assault.
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Originally Posted by Akron Beacon
Deputies who were at the jail on the night of the death testified that they saw Krendick:
• Using a Taser stun gun several times on McCullaugh with little or no effect.
• Standing on McCullaugh's bunk, stomping on his head four or five times, then continuing after a deputy told him to stop.
• Saturating the inmate with a 16-ounce can of pepper spray, intended for riots, through a flap in the cell door.
All of those actions occurred while McCullaugh was handcuffed and shackled at the legs as he kneeled at his bunk in the moments after the struggle, according to eyewitness testimony.
There was additional testimony that the cell door was closed and that a jail nurse had injected McCullaugh with a ''drug cocktail'' before he was pepper-sprayed.
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08-26-2008, 09:41 PM
Akron, OH: Shackled Mental Health Inmate Killed
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