Police: Kentucky man dies after officers use stun gun on him

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Police: Kentucky man dies after officers use stun gun on him

Updated 6:29 pm, Sunday, March 13, 2016

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky State Police say a man involved in a weekend rollover accident has died after officers used a stun gun on him when he became combative.

State Police Trooper B.J. Eaton said Sunday that 52-year-old Michael Roll of Bowling Green was pronounced dead at the Medical Center at Bowling Green.

His statement says two State Police officers and a local sheriff's deputy found Roll's vehicle overturned Saturday night on William Natcher Parkway near bowling Green. Eaton says Roll appeared intoxicated and became combative with officers, who shot him with a stun gun and he became unconscious.

The release says an autopsy was planned Sunday.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Police-Kentucky-man-dies-after-officers-use-6887579.php

[TipTok]

1. Short of repeated or unecessary stuns...

... I would suspect either drugs or a health condition.

[tclambert]

3. A young woman died from falling and hitting her head after being shot by a stun gun.

She just collapsed and hit the back of her head on the pavement. You don't usually associate stun guns with skull fractures, but what happens after the person gets stunned? They fall. Falling is the second leading cause of accidental death (after attending Trump rallies). And accidents are the fourth or fifth leading cause of death.

[TipTok]

4. A good point...

A story that stuck with me was an obese man on method and dealing with heart problems died from a taze and his family didn't accept any of it as the actual guys fault.

Case by case...

[sakabatou]

2. Until we get the autopsy, we don't know the full picture.