The Kansas Bureau of Investigation is reviewing the death of a man who was stunned with a Taser three times by a local sheriff’s deputy, but the coroner cited other factors as causing his death.
County Coroner Erik Mitchell concluded that Walter E. Haake Jr., who has diabetes and heart problems, died after being held face down by deputies. Mitchell found that the March 30 death at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plant in north Topeka, where Haake worked, was accidental.
Mitchell said when a person with heart problems is held in such a position and his chest is compressed, “Sudden death occasionally results.”
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