Word: burtons
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...Burton, wearing a baseball cap and khakis, was going to visit his aunt. He had grown up in Las Vegas and had been a popular wrestler in high school. He had earned an award for helping elderly people. The night before, he and his mother Janet had watched a TV special about air crashes. He mentioned the show to his mother on the drive to the airport but seemed fine, she says, when she kissed him goodbye at the gate...
...Burton's strange behavior during the hour-long flight, however, was noticed by some passengers even before his outbursts. "Where are we going?" he asked the woman sitting next to him. When a flight attendant passed him with a soda, he grabbed it from her tray. She told him it wasn't for him but she could bring him back something...
...this plane!" as he rushed up the aisle. "We've got to open the door!" After he had been subdued, an off-duty police officer in the rear of the plane offered to help. A row of seats was cleared so the officer and another man could guard Burton during the plane's landing. But as Burton was being led to the back, he flailed his arms, pushed his captors aside and struck the off-duty officer in the mouth, gashing his lip and splattering blood inside the cabin...
Others jumped up to subdue him. Women screamed; children began to cry. Eight men eventually wrestled the 6-ft., 190-lb. Burton to the floor. "It is over," a man told him, yelling obscenities. "You are not getting up." But the mob may have got carried away. Dean Harvey, who was sitting in the third row with his wife and 11-month-old daughter, says a burly man jumped repeatedly onto Burton's chest. "You've got the guy subdued, what more do you want?" Harvey says he told the man, who jumped twice more before stopping. Harvey's account...
When the plane landed, airport police and medics were waiting at the jetway. Burton was unconscious but still officially alive. He died later at the hospital. The autopsy found bruises and scratches from blunt-force trauma to his face, neck and torso. "He was essentially beaten from the top of his head down to his ankles," says Kent Spence, his mother's attorney. "He died of positional and compressional asphyxia." The autopsy found traces of marijuana and cocaine in his system, but not enough to explain his outburst, Spence says. Though the coroner ruled the death a homicide because Burton...