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TexasTowelie

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Tue Mar 7, 2017, 11:00 AM Mar 2017

One dead after fight with officer at Greenville Memorial Hospital

The State Law Enforcement Division and the Greenville County Coroner's Office are investigating a death that occurred at Greenville Memorial Hospital on Monday morning.

Donald Keith Smith, 48, of Crawford Hill Road in Greenville, was pronounced dead at 10:23 a.m., shortly before the Coroner's Office was called to the hospital, said Greenville County Coroner Parks Evans.

Smith had been admitted to the hospital where he became combative before hitting a hospital security officer, Evans said. A struggle followed and that's when investigators say Smith became unresponsive and stopped breathing, Evans said.

Hospital personnel made unsuccessful attempts to revive Smith, according to the Coroner's Office report.

Read more: http://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/crime/2017/03/06/one-dead-after-fight-officer-ghs/98818256/

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