CA: Suspect Dies After Deputies Use Taser
KCRA-TV
August 14, 2007
Category: Police State
WATERFORD, California - A man died Wednesday after a Taser gun was used by authorities in Stanislaus County to subdue a robbery suspect.
The incident began at 8 a.m. Wednesday in the 300 block of South Western Street in Waterford after a woman called 911 to report a man breaking into her home. She said she had been attacked.
When Stanislaus County sheriff's deputies arrived, they found the suspect outside the home, and struggled to subdue him. The man resisted arrest, which prompted the deputies to use a Taser gun on him.
He stopped breathing, and was taken to a local hospital where he died. Investigators are still looking into the exact cause of his death.
Deputy Royjinder Singh said a toxicology report will be compiled to determine if the man was under influence.
Deputies have not yet released the man's name, as they are still notifying his family members about what happened.
According to a report from the American Civil Liberties Union, there were 148 in-custody Taser gun deaths in North America between 1999 and 2005.
More than half of those deaths, 69, came in 2005 alone. Of that number, 15 occurred in Northern and Central California.
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