JASPER COUNTY, Ind. (WLS) — A medical examiner’s autopsy found no signs of trauma after an Indiana man died while handcuffed last September.

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The Lake County Coroner’s Office said Wednesday that 26-year-old Rhyker Earl died of cardiovascular disease and ruled the manner of death natural.

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The 26-year-old father of two died after an encounter with sheriff’s deputies and paramedics inside his home last September.

The Jasper County Sheriff’s Office released body camera footage of Earl’s encounter with deputies who responded to his DeMotte home after he suffered what his family said was his third seizure of the day. Earl had epilepsy.

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Deputies were called because paramedics had trouble controlling him.

Minutes into the encounter, deputies restrained Earl to the ground, asking him to remain calm as he pleaded for his life to his family.

The applicants administered several injections of sedatives. Earl eventually passed out and paramedics performed CPR on him before taking him to the hospital. He died two days later.

The family hired civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who said Earl’s death was the result of a failure to fulfill a duty to a man who was in the middle of a medical emergency.