An autopsy report says Honolulu police fatally shot a 29-year-old South African man who had a degenerative brain disease often found in American football stars subjected to repeated head trauma.
In this undated photo provided by Lindsay Myeni, is Lindani Myeni, foreground with no shirt on, resting on the grass after a rugby match in Eshowe, South Africa. Myeni was fatally shot by Honolulu police in 2021 after he physically attacked officers, who responded when an upset occupant of a home complained a stranger had entered uninvited wearing a feathered headband and made bizarre comments.
Lindsay Myeni, who filed a wrongful death lawsuit alleging police shot her husband because he was Black, said she was shocked to learn of the CTE diagnosis. He had been emotional earlier that day about family issues and the couple had visited numerous spiritual sites around the island of Oahu, Lindsay Myeni said, but he showed no signs of CTE symptoms. Those include memory loss, confusion, impaired judgment, impulse control problems, aggression and depression.
“The case of Mr. Myeni was really simple when I just determined the cause and manner of death. But the circumstances were very complex, and the public was greatly impacted by this case,” he said. The youngest case of stage three CTE diagnosed in medical literature was Aaron Hernandez, 27, making Myeni “an example of pretty severe CTE for someone that age,” said Dr. Daniel Daneshvar, an expert on the condition and Harvard Medical School assistant professor., killed himself in 2017 in the prison cell where he was serving a life-without-parole sentence for murder.
“It’s just a reminder for everybody that danger can come about, either because somebody just has that type of personality or they have some kind of ... mental or emotional disability or, like this,” Alm said.
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