Naked man running around neighborhood screaming dies after being tased, Texas cops say

A Texas man died after police say they responded to an exposure call and ultimately tased him.

Just after 7 a.m. April 28, police responded to a southeast Houston neighborhood after they were called about a naked man running around in the street, Houston Police Assistant Chief Wyatt Martin said at a news conference streamed on Facebook.

People in the area reported they could hear the man screaming. When officers arrived, they found the man inside a back enclosed porch of a home in the neighborhood.

Martin said police confronted the man and ordered him to come out, but he was uncooperative. The officers backed off and called for backup because the man was in an “agitated state”, Martin said.

When fire crews and backup units arrived, police tried to take the man into custody, Martin said.

“He fought with the officers and was eventually tased,” Martin said.

The man, whose identity has not been released, was placed into handcuffs, and about a minute later he became unresponsive, police said.

Paramedics were already on the scene and treated the man but were not able to revive him, police said. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

“We use tasers as a less lethal weapon quite often, most of the time people have no adverse effects. This gentleman, we do know for certain was on a narcotic, and that very likely, given what he was on, could have contributed,” Martin said.

Martin said the man was tased at least one time after wrestling with officers. He said a full investigation into the man’s death will be done.

A cause of death has not yet been determined.

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