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Coroner: Cocaine, Not Taser Killed Man

Coroner Blames Death On Excited Delirium

POSTED: 5:42 pm CDT October 8, 2007
UPDATED: 6:07 pm CDT October 8, 2007

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.


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