Michael A. Harris

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Police responded to a reported assault at Sugar Hill Liquor at about 11 p.m. Officers arrested Michael A. Harris and placed him in a police cruiser, where a camera reportedly recorded him damaging the car despite his hands and ankles being cuffed. According to the police report, Harris "began eating pieces of the headliner which he had pulled down and the wiring behind it." and that "At one point he began chewing on his hands, causing severe lacerations. He also pulled out three of his own teeth and possibly ate one of his socks." Police said Harris was restrained on a bed emergency room and died at the hospital on October 6, 2014. Officials said Harris, who was schizophrenic, had PCP in his system and died from "excited delirium."

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This record exists so that Michael A. Harris, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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