No charges to be filed in death of black inmate at Missouri jail

O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced Friday that no charges will be filed in the 2017 death of Tory Sanders, a Black inmate at a rural jail.

Sanders died under similar circumstances to George Floyd, after a white law enforcement officer’s knee was pressed on his neck.

Schmitt says there is not enough evidence to prove first- or second-degree murder.

He says these charges are the only options because the statute of limitations had expired on other potential charges, such as manslaughter.

The 28-year-old Tennessee man died at the Mississippi County Jail in Charleston, Missouri, in May 2017.