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The Cook County medical examiner's office said the cause of death was hemoperitoneum – bleeding in the stomach area from blunt force trauma from being shot with a bean bag gun.
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The autopsy showed the bean bags caused his death. I would believe that beans bags would be the weapon of choice when confronting an elderly citizen. Had the policeman took the man down to the ground in a head lock or some other type of control maneuver, he would of probably suffered broken bones at minimum. The officers were probably trained to use bean bags in just this sort of confrontation. It could of been a case of suicide by police. When they ordered him to drop his cane and shoe horn, he picked up the butcher knife. At the age of 95, maybe this fellow felt it was his time to go.