A 79-year-old Center Ossipee man beaten to death in a Walmart parking lot in Somersworth on Friday died of compressional asphyxia, the Attorney General’s Office said Sunday.
A 79-year-old Center Ossipee man beaten to death in a Walmart parking lot in Somersworth on Friday died of compressional asphyxia, the Attorney General’s Office said Sunday.
The autopsy of a man killed at a Walmart in New Hampshires shows he died of asphyxiation while allegedly being beaten, Attorney General John M. Formella said Sunday.
The autopsy was conducted by Deputy Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Mitchell Weinberg. Dr. Weinberg determined that Jan VanTassel’s cause of death was due to compressional asphyxia, and that his manner of death was homicide.