A 34-year-old man who was hospitalized after Edmonton police tried to subdue him with a stun gun has died.
Jeff Oatway was transported to hospital and put on life support last Wednesday after police tried to subdue him with a stun gun.
CTV Edmonton reported Saturday that a family member has since confirmed that Oatway died.
Oatway had started to act out while awaiting a bail hearing in the basement of the city's police headquarters, police said.
He jumped a counter in the prisoner processing area before fighting with a peace officer and Edmonton police employee, an Edmonton radio station reported.
The CHED report said Oatway stopped breathing and had no detectable heartbeat after being struck by a charge from a Taser stun gun. Officers tried to resuscitate him until medical crews arrived and took over.
ASIRT, Alberta's Serious Incident Response Team, is looking into the confrontation.
"We'll try and understand what was going on in the affected person's life, in the moments, hours, and days leading up to the incident," Clif Purvis, the agency's civilian executive director, told CTV Edmonton.
Tasers have been linked to the deaths of more than 25 people in Canada, including Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski who died after being Tasered five times.
Still, the stun gun's U.S. manufacturer says the weapons have never been proven to have caused a death in Canada.
With files from The Canadian Press
