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    What we know about the life and death of Frank Tyson

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    CANTON ‒ Frank E. Tyson was 53 when he died April 18 while in Canton police custody.

    He had lived with his brother John, who is two years younger, in John’s two-story house on Dietz Avenue NE in Canton Township, a short distance outside the eastern Canton city limits off Trump Avenue NE.

    According to his obituary, Frank Tyson was a 1989 graduate of Canton South High who accepted Christ at a young age.

    “He was an avid reader, especially of newspapers and encyclopedias. Frank enjoyed watching sports and discussing team statistics,” said the memorial tribute posted by Rhoden Memorial Home.

    He’s looking forward to getting back to work as an asphalt worker, fighting to clear his name of the charges he was jailed for, and spending time with his family and Sibrena Jones, his significant other of 25 years. according to the obituary.

    He was preceded in death by his parents, Thad “Junebug” Tyson and Mamie Lou (West) Tyson, and brothers Rickey, Benjamin and Donald. Survived by brothers Melvin, Darren and John.

    Reverend Al Sharpton’s eulogy for Frank Tyson: “You can prove his family right.”

    Frank Tyson spent two decades in prison

    At a press conference held after his death, his cousin Ronald Simmons said that Frank Tyson came from a good family, raised by a stay-at-home mother and a father who taught his sons to work.

    Frank Tyson had been in repeated trouble with the law. At the time of his death, he was wanted for a parole violation, allegedly committed after completing a 24-year sentence imposed in 2000 for kidnapping, burglary, failure to obey the order of a police officer, receiving stolen property and grand larceny. of a motor vehicle.

    In that case, investigators said he crashed a stolen truck on Republic Technologies International property before stealing another. The driver led Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers and Stark County sheriff’s deputies on another chase before wrecking that truck, hitting a utility pole and four parked cars, sending one car into a home.

    Witnesses said Tyson abandoned the vehicle and ended up inside an occupied home on Second Street NE, where prosecutors said he grabbed an 11-year-old girl and held her as a shield for a pursuing trooper to lower his weapon before throwing the girl. down on a 1-year-old girl.

    The trooper and a person in the house were then able to wrestle him to the floor, allowing the trooper to arrest him. The older girl was not physically injured, but the child had to be taken to the hospital.

    Tyson maintained his innocence in the case and continued to appeal his conviction for years while behind bars.

    What happened the night Frank Tyson died in an AMVETS club in Canton?

    On the evening he died, Frank Tyson crashed a Chevrolet Malibu into a utility pole in the 1700 block of Sherrick Road SE, causing the pole to snap and fall into the street, investigators said.

    Canton Police Department Traffic Bureau Officers Beau Schoenegge and Camden Burch were the first police personnel to arrive on the scene.

    Based on witness reports of where the driver had gone, Schoenegge and Burch went to the nearby AMVETS Post 124 at 1822 Sherrick Road SE, where they found him.

    When officers entered the building around 8:27 p.m., a woman sitting in the foyer told police, “Please get him out of here now.”

    Body camera video shows the officers taking Tyson to the floor as he screams that the police officers are trying to kill him.

    One officer placed his knee on Tyson’s upper back and neck for about a minute while another police officer handcuffed him. Tyson said “I can’t breathe” several times. Less than a minute after being handcuffed, he fell silent.

    The police officers left Tyson face down on the floor for nearly 8 minutes before the officer handcuffing him realized he had no pulse. The officer then removed the handcuffs. He and another officer performed chest compressions for several minutes. They gave him naloxone, the antidote for opiate overdose.

    Canton Fire Department medics arrived to take over Tyson’s care. They took him to Aultman Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:18 p.m., just about an hour after the accident.

    On Friday, Schoenegge and Burch were charged with reckless homicide, a third-degree felony that carries a prison sentence of up to three years.

    More: “I can’t breathe.” Canton police body camera footage captures Frank Tyson’s last words

    More: “You’re never allowed to say, ‘Shut the F.'” Frank Tyson’s legal team is demanding justice

    Contact Nancy at 330-580-8382 or [email protected]. On X, formerly known as Twitter: @nmolnarTR.

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