Jackson Edge Jr.
Name: Jackson Edge Jr.
Age: 53
Gender: Male
Race: European-American/White
Date: 06/26/2017
Location: 100 block Dodd St.
Wellford, South Carolina, 29385
County: Spartanburg
Agency: Wellford Police Department
Cause of Death: Asphyxiated/Restrained
Intended Use of Force: Less-than-lethal force
Media summary: Officers were in regards to a prowler call, police said. Officers found a man with his pants falling around his ankles, peering into a nursing home. Jackson Edge was sweating and not acting right, and police were attempting to arrest him, when he took off. Edge resisted arrest, swinging broken glass paraphernalia. As the officers restrained Edge, he went unconscious, and died a short time later.
Unique ID: 11905
News article: Link
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