Man shoots himself after deputies tase him

Girlfriend called called 9-1-1 asking for help, telling dispatcher man had gun.
TNS Regional News
Jul 25, 2013














By Jessica Heffner - Springfield News-Sun, Ohio (MCT)

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tragic probably shook up from tazer that cop should blame himself


So what in your highly trained professional opinion should they have done? just pulled up a chair and had a drink with him? waited for him to have turned the gun on THEM? Your comment is completely off base. They were trying to DISarm him. MOST people do not get up after being tazed. The man had a death wish and this sounds like nothing more than "suicide by cop"


so who said I was trained jw if he had a death wish he would have shot at the police not killed himself how can it be death by police when he shot himself WOW


Ddog89.....Come on are you that stupid?!?! The cops were called for a reason. He had the gun out and it's pretty clear he was going to use it. You are an idiot to say something like that.


simply stating they shouldn't have shocked a guy that is obviously in emotional agony. the mindset to take his own life in the first place, is reason enough to try and help the man instead of treating him like a suspect...and just because its my opinion does not make me stupid or and idiot. and htf is it clear he was going to use it, until the cops shocked him.


...tragic anyway you look at it


Ddog must have been there. The guy had a gun. I'm sure the cops told him to put it down. If I was one of the cops I probably would have had my gun pointed at him, not a taser. Some people really should just refrain from commenting on subjects they know nothing about.


I love the fence jumpers on here. If the cops would of shot him with their gun, people like Ddog would be screaming "why didn't they use a taser"? Now they use a taser and the guy takes his own life.

Sad, yes, but the cops didn't pull the gun.


people like me yep you are right I was there twice lol you people give me laughter in my day all I say is my opinion about something tragic and you idiots get on here and start bashing and stuff how hilarious is it that you loser have nothing better with your life other then comment on reflector posts get a life other then this love how its always the same people saying meaningless crap on this page blaze,ladydye5,arnmcrmn


wow...can someone interpret this please?


There is a lot left to be told in this article. No one can say who is at fault until many questions can be answered........."“He fell back and after the deployment, he (sat) back up and then took the handgun, put it to his head and took his own life, Kelly said."How much time after the deployment of the taser before he sat up. right away? if so does the taser have the wires that attach so he can be tased again? is this taser one size fits all? Or does it have setting you can adjust for more or less shock? (like a shock collar for a dog). I have seen people on the news get tased and they go flat out stiff and fall and are down long enough to get a gun from them , or cuff them.My next question is were they using a taser or a taser gun,I'm going to assume a gun cuz it said they deployed it, so with that in mind how did the guy get up if...... "a taser gun results in an immediate loss of the target's neuromuscular control, as well as any ability to take coordinated action, Once the initial shock is delivered to the target via the taser's probes, that doesn't end the incident. Tasers have an automatic timing mechanism that continually delivers the debilitating, but ultimately non-lethal, shock. Various models of tasers use different timing mechanisms, from delivering further shocks to the target's system (which are usually in the range of 50,000 volts) every 5 seconds, to every 30 seconds. The purpose of this is so that the targets' nervous systems can't simply recover from the initial shocks," Amazing what you can find out on the internet. So again I say to many question left from this article to make any kind of a judgment call