Final Exam Part 2

A 19-year-old shoplifting suspect Timothy Milan died last Saturday. A guard at Panzer's Department Store told police he saw the Milan stuff two sweaters down his pants legs, then walk past a checkout line and out of the department store. The guard then began to chase Milan, who ran, and three bystanders joined in the pursuit. They caught up with Milan, and, when he resisted, one of the bystanders applied a headlock to him.

 A police officer who arrived at the scene reported that Milan collapsed as he put handcuffs on him. An autopsy conducted to determine the cause of death revealed that Milan died due to a lack of oxygen to the brain. Police today said they do not plan to charge anyone involved in the case with a crime. The police said the bystanders did not mean to injure Milan or to kill him, but that he was fighting violently—punching and kicking at his captors and even trying to bite them—and that they were simply trying to restrain him and trying to help capture a suspected criminal.


"It was a case of excusable homicide," Police spokesman Michael Williams said. "Milan should never have run from the guard, we believe he had a run in with police in the past."

Timothy Milan's father, Eric Milan wants to press charges against the man who did this to his son.

"We plan to bring civil charges against the man who did this to my son," Eric said.
"Our lawyers are already filing papers and we encourage the courts to revisit this ruling from a criminal perspective."

Eye witness Sherry Carter tells what she saw about the police chase.

"We went outside to see what was going to happen and we saw the boy get dragged to the ground," Carter said. "They were fighting alright, but it looked like all four of them were pulling at him and he finally stopped moving."

Panzer's Department Store manger Paula Smith tells her apologies for what happened to Timothy.

"We are sorry for the death of the young man, it was never our intentions for these kinds of things to happen," Smith said. "We are currently looking at revising our policies regarding shoplifting and how we keep these kinds of things from happening."