It started as a call to the Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office late Saturday night for help in getting medical attention to a 59-year-old employee at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plant, officials said Wednesday.
Plant employees said Walter Edward Haake Jr., of Lawrence, seemed disoriented and may have had a head injury. They didn’t think it would be safe for him to drive, they said.
A little more than an hour later, Haake was dead. He had been stunned with a Taser three times by a sheriff’s deputy, then handcuffed before he collapsed.
“The intent was to get this person helped,” said Shawnee County Sheriff Dick Barta at a news conference. “I don’t know if the Taser caused” his death, Barta said.
He said the deputies had already taken away Haake’s keys for his white Jeep.
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