Man Dies After Taser Stunning

A man shot by police with a Taser electronic stun gun this morning in South Los Angeles went into cardiac arrest after being jolted by electricity and died a short time later, authorities said.

Officers went to a disturbance call at a home on West 53rd Street at 4:35 a.m. and got into a fight with the man, whose name was not immediately released, Los Angeles Police Department Sgt. Gary Clarke said. The officers used the Taser to subdue him, and he immediately collapsed. He died at Daniel Freeman Memorial Hospital in Inglewood, where he was taken by paramedics. The incident was under investigation by the Police Department’s officer-involved shooting team, Clarke said.