Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Maryland man Tasered to death
Jarrel Gray, a 20-year old Frederick Maryland man was killed this past Sunday morning after being Tasered twice in a 23 second period by a Frederick County Sheriff Deputy. This from the Frederick News-Post:
The deputy found three men fighting, Jenkins said. A female was also on the scene.
Jenkins would not provide the names or ages of the other people at the scene, but he said the deputy was a corporal and a 13-year veteran of the department.
When the deputy told the three men to show their hands, one of them did so immediately, another walked away before showing his hands, and the third man, identified as Gray, did not comply, Jenkins said.
The sheriff said no other officers were present when the deputy deployed the Taser. Gray, of the 7000 block of Ladd Circle, fell to the ground unconscious; he was given first aid on the scene.
Emergency responders arrived in minutes, Jenkins said. Gray was then taken to Frederick Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead about 7:30 a.m.
Gray’s family says that he was deaf in one ear and may not have understood the deputy’s instructions to show his hands.
I don’t like these Taser devices. For supposedly being non-lethal, there sure are a lot of people now dead because of them.
