Terrell Day

Less-than-lethal force

Officers responded to a call after a security guard alleged that Terrell Day had stolen a watch from the Burlington Coat Factory. Day ran out of the mall, followed by a police officer and a security guard who said that Day was carrying a gun. When police caught up with Day, he had collapsed. Officer Randall Denny arrived and noticed that the 312-pound teenager had defecated on himself and was sweating and breathing heavily. Officers handcuffed Day twice, killing him during an apparent heart attack. The gun was out of Day's reach when he died.