Nicholas R. Mamino Jr.

Less-than-lethal force

Nick Mamino Jr.--the son of a former Collinsville police chief--suffocated after police shot him twice with a Taser and hog-tied him. At around 4 a.m., officers responded after a woman reported that Mamino was drunk and wouldn't leave her duplex. She said he wasn't acting violently, but that she was tired and wanted to go to sleep. The officers found Mamino on the front porch. When he saw them, he ran, jumped a fence into the backyard, then ran inside the duplex through a back door. A struggle reportedly ensued. According to police, Mamino tossed officers off of him with "superhuman strength" as they tried to hogtie him. Mamino died later at a hospital. A coroner's jury decided Mamino died accidentally. The main cause of Mamino's death was ruled as "positional asphyxiation due to hog-tying during a cocaine-induced delirium."