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Laredo man dies after police use Taser on him
Posted: 09.23.2009 at 10:42 AM
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Three Laredo police officers are on administrative duty pending investigation of the death of a man they shocked with a Taser gun.
LAREDO,TEXAS (AP) -- Police spokesman Alberto Escobedo says the three officers answered a pre-dawn criminal mischief report Monday and confronted 44-year-old Richard Battistata. That's after the man allegedly had broken a bedroom window and entered an apartment.
Escobedo says that during the confrontation Battistata turned combative and one officer used the Taser to subdue him.
Instead, Battistata became unresponsive and police called an ambulance. He died soon after arriving at Doctors Hospital.
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