Unfortunate coincidence or negligent homicide? You be the judge.

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My friend belonged to a program for adults with "learning disabilities" (in other words "special people") anyway this place has a very dark side to it which includes crimminal activity and abuse (things that they do because they can, like throwing away everything a person owns without there permission, or sometimes knowledge) their punishments or "citations" for doing something wrong (like standing up for themselves.) These citations, which are occasionally fair are normally unreasonable, unfair, humiliating, odd, or just plain cruel. One of the councilors named Russ was known to essentially torture the "residents" his punishment was to go to the gym where he would make them workout harder and longer than the person could or should workout. Even if a person was asthmatic and/or out of shape he would make them run (no warm up, just run) on the treadmill at very high speeds for a very long time until they were visably in pain, and if the person complained they had to go faster. No matter how weak they where or how much they were hurting he would have most of them lift weights often heavier than they could handle. People went to the program director to report it. The directors responce? Make it the common punishment. Russ was constantly warned "If you keep doing this one day you will go to far and kill someone." Russ of course didn't care, because he was so sure what he was doing was not dangerous enough to kill. Back in April 2010 my friend was sent to the gym with Russ after a dispute over something involving a bill. As usual Russ made him work out harder than he could and my friend complained that his heart hurt. He said it over and over and Russ made him run faster. At some point after he pleaded to stop Russ said "keep complaining and I will take your computer." he shut up for a little while then started crying again when he was made to lift weights and Russ would still not let him stop. An hour later he colapses on the basketball court and dies. People started seeing Russ as responsible. Now the favorite of the directors councilors had become a liability. He was finally fired. Everyone was told it was just some sort of random accident that happens to people when God all of a sudden takes some unknown reason. Somehow news leaked that autopsy reports said heart attack. Something about a burst attery. I have heard he had heart problems (though I'm not sure if the program knew it or not.) Somehow this was not investigated at all. They just took the directors word for it. I'm not saying that Russ is the cause. It is possible this is just a unfortunate coincidence. And "Correlation does not imply causation." But even if that is the case, Russ had known better than to do things like this, he knew what could happen. And did it for that reason (torture not death.) Still, guy goes to the gym- heart hurts -works out to hard -plays basketball -feels sick -heart attack -death they do seem like they could be linked. I don't think Russ intended to kill him, he deffinatly went to far. Still, while his intent was not death, he knew very well what he was doing waas dangerous enough to cause death and chose to ignore it. Neglegent homicide?