Aug 15, 2008 8:08 am US/Eastern
Man Dies After Apparent Police Tasering
SOUTH MIAMI-DADE (CBS4) ―
Police in South Miami-Dade are trying to unravel an apparent incident between police officers and a man wandering through a South Dade neighborhood which left the man dead of what witnesses claim was a tasering by officers. Police have yet to confirm that claim.
The apparent confrontation happened in the area of SW 107th Avenue and SW 146th Terrace early Friday morning.
A Miami-Dade police spokesman said a man identified as 45-year-old Kenneth Oilver was reported by residents to be wandering through the neighborhood about 2 a.m., knocking on doors.
Police were called, and after deciding he had an apparent medical issue, the decision was made to have him committed for observation and they attempted to take him into custody.
Details are less clear at this point. A police spokesman said a call was made to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue to have the man taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital South after he suffered 'some sort of medical problem'.
Police say the man died after he arrived at JMH.
Officers would not confirm that the man may have been tasered by police, and would say only that both a homicide and an internal affairs investigation have been started.
Residents say the man did not live in the area.
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