Alberta man dies after police use Taser

May 7, 2009
By NADIA MOHARIB AND KATIE SCHNEIDER, The Calgary Sun

Last night a man died after a confrontation with Brooks RCMP in which he was hit with a Taser at least once.

Sources said Mounties encountered an aggressive man during an investigation into a possible break-in on a residential street in the Lake Bevan area of the town, about 170 km southeast of Calgary, about suppertime.

The man was taken to Brooks hospital in cardiac arrest but efforts to resuscitate him were not successful.

RCMP spokesman Patrick Webb said the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) is looking into the death.