Taser Death Still Under Investigation
posted 9:06 pm Thu December 06, 2007 - Frederick, Md.
Officials say 20-year-old Jarrel Gray died November 18th after Corporal Rudy Torres, a 13-year-veteran of the sheriff's office, used the electronic stun gun on him twice after responding to reports of men fighting. Gray was pronounced dead at Frederick Memorial Hospital about 2 hours later.
Police are still awaiting autopsy results on the cause and manner of his death. But a preliminary toxicology screen by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner revealed that Gray had a blood alcohol content of .18, more than twice the state legal limit of .08 for operating a vehicle. No narcotics were found in Gray's system.Some Taser-related deaths have been attributed to "excited delirium," a state in which a person's heart becomes overtaxed from the effects of drugs or mental illness combined with a high level of stress.
The NAACP demanded the sheriff's department stop using tasers until it determines what went wrong in the death of Gray. Gray's family is also calling for a complete investigation.
"If I had known my son would have died at 7:33 a.m., I wish I'd seen him at 7:29 and tell him I love him," said victim's father Jeffrey Gray.
Latest Comment on Taser Death Still Under Investigation
PeeGee 5-O
11:03 am on 12/06/07
I think the big lesson here is once the police show up on scene, stop doing what you were doing to have them called in the first place.
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