The parents of a 19-year-old man who died after police shocked him with a Taser stun gun have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the town of Gilbert, Arizona. (see: http://www.abc15.com /news/local/story.aspx? content_id=7253ff76-1b6e-44fc-88ae-106e7c71bd8d) The parents say that the Gilbert police department was negligent when they used the taser gun on their son who died 11 hours later.Police say that the 19 year old hit a woman in the chest and stole her keys before he was found nearby. The police asked the man to stop but he continued walking toward them and did not heed their commands. At that point, an officer tased the man, knocking him to the ground then fired the stun gun three more times within 30 seconds because the man would not stay on the ground. By the fourth shock, the man was unresponsive, coughing up green phlegm, moaning, and unable to speak.
According to an autopsy the man died from excited delirium and had meth in his system.
