KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Cocaine, not a Taser gun, killed a man who died after a struggle with police, the Wyandotte County coroner said Monday.

Keith L. White, 44, -- whose family said he was a drug user -- died after police shocked him with a Taser gun as they tried to arrest him on Oct. 1.

White had gone behind a church near North 57th Terrace and Nogard Avenue to smoke crack, his family said.

When police tried to arrest him, White ran into a nearby creek and started fighting with officers, according authorities.

The coroner blamed White's death on excited delirium, and said that anything that excited an already-stimulated heart could cause death.