95-Year Old Man Tasered to Death by Police in Illinois Nursing Home
Posted on July 29, 2013
PARK FOREST, Ill., July 28 (UPI) – A 95-year-old Illinois man who allegedly confronted police officers with a knife and cane died after they shot him with a stun gun and bean bag rounds.
Yes, a cane.
Officers were called to an assisted living home in the village of Park Forest Friday after the man, identified as John Warna, allegedly became combative with employees of a private ambulance company who were attempting to transfer him to a hospital for medical treatment, The (Chicago) SouthtownStar reported.
Police said Warna was threatening the facility’s staff and paramedics with a metal cane and a shoehorn when officers arrived.
There’s that cane again.
Police said they used a stun gun on Warna and struck him with beanbag rounds after he refused to drop the items and grabbed a 12-inch butcher knife instead.
A cause of death had not been released by Saturday evening, NBC News reported.
I may not be a medical examiner, but I’m pretty sure 50,000 volts and a round of bean bags may have had something to do with it.
The hospital staff says there was no knife and none was found at the scene.