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New stun weapon offers safer option
Fo... t Wo...lh acquins guns
that polict' say will reduce the
likelihood of inju...ies to
suspects and officers,
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FOII:I' WORTH _ Twenly-si. wailS of
.,l«trici'y <tory<! throush Jorge Rosa"
~ ~ joI'ins him ifMo the air.
"II was mu.,h. much wane than.
charley hone: he .."id alter land'''ll na'

on his face.

IltK it was much bette. than being.boe
aI with a .llkaliber handcun.
The Fort Worth f'oI"" l)epartmenI •

the r.l'$I in the Mttroplea to pure...... If)
slun lIun. that don't .eleue a lethal
eharg\" of tlttlTicity.
Polk., Hid th., lIun. called the
.... dv• ....,td Ta..,r M26. will reduce lhe
possibility of itliur)' '0 suspte!, .lId olf!..
an at crime """nes. l1>c charge incapac,
itl'u .he ,u.ptet's .k.,leul n,uKlu,
police Slid. Introduced by a company
eal10ed noser In'crn;lItion.a! in t999, ~ «Un
+;'..-1 by IlllO bw n,for,:o,ment
nationwkk. police Slid.
"It·, an alte.nuive '0 'he balon o.
.prayiDj\l: Lr. Paul N. Iwanow,kl said.
"When you 5lrib: _.-.ne wilh • baton.
)'OU """Id do lome ..... ious datDall"'o"
During a ttSl Monday at the Fort
Worth l'oIice Academy. ofl"ocen alt:ached
tWO IonIC topper wi,.." to Jorge Ilo$a,'
belt .nd ankle. Rou,. a ""porler with
radio otation KRLD/I080 AM. re~
h'. glass"" and Sgl. Slephen Hadley
aimed and fired,
I'ourt<"en North Tens pol.... olTtottn.
includinll to from Fort Worth. ......, pari
or an 'n"rueto•• ..,minar .nd demon
strat,on un huw to u.e Ihe M26. They
psped .,oJ walched aile. Rosas, the..., to
""port II.. stOl'}'. volunteered to he ,,-Rosas said lhe initi.ol pin·prick,.,_
tion that he ""It from the shod s~ad in
If:ss than One M'COnd 10 render complete

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M2tl The shod<. HaiIfy 1IIOId. can ~ ~ '" ~ IrocMs of cloIwlg

inunobiUty,
Duri"8 lhe nul few weeks, poha:
said, "'" otrlttl'$ III: the -ina will leach
other otrlCe'n how 10 ..,., ,he gun.
When an offi"". point. lhe batttr)'''
powtrcd _apoll at • <u,pte! standins as
far lIS 21 fffI: away, a rcd bser shrnoes on
"'" -...pm's body, Two ~ wires....,
shot, lhe fin!: .nxb.$ .. the I....,.·. mark,
lht "'cond bnd, at an R d.,g.ec angle
b<'low the laser, <aid Hadley. a mormb<'r of
the f'oIir:,e [)ep;or'mml in GImcWe. Ariz.,
and master ;l15lrvdor for T-. Int"",,·

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n.. .. why.1_nowski said, lhe M216

i, an attncli"" opl;"n for "Iual,Of1S in
which the ,u'pect is partk:ularly combat
ive.,uch as dorD6tk: distlUl~
OfI'"o«r 1>,,(., Hntz. ""'" """"'" in Fort
Wurth pol~ r=no;t tnmir>& .."id lhe
,iShl of Ih., r.,d In.,. i, ,omttime,
enoush 10 maR the ,uspeet comply.
"!t., kmtI of a "'ental tlllng: lle~ said.
"It says. 'rm about 10 II" shot.. The <kparl_"I', 10 T~ls will ....
distributed to t.... SWAT unit, lhe fugit,....
l1>c ohotk, Hooley Slid, Can penetrat., unit. ,,,cidellt c01nmanders .,"d other
up to 2'~ inches of clothing, ImmobiHu er,,,,e .upon,., uniu ,.",on town.
lhe luspcd ,n If:ss 'b.an a half-secund If1d 1_n<>WSk.i san
lasl for five ..,condo. No ,niuriu are
"II', toilll 10 he. good "Ii...- H<-=
incuned,.nd lhe gun doesn) affect pa:e- said, noti"ll that he wi<hed he had an
maun or hellJ'l conditions that the JUS- M26 in the 3 Yi yean he spent on bike
I"'trol. "With the T»e•. l dOfl·tlhink anypte! may have. lIadley said.
-r waves replicale tloe brain waves body wid "IO~ ho5pital"
thai teU your musdes wh:lt 10 do: saXI
Hadley• ...,ferring 10 the elect.icity pr0duced by the gun. "We IlO> not tr)'itlll to

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Fort Worth police use stun gun
to subdue suicidal man
FORT WORTH - Hours after
learning bow to use a new weapon
that leaves people temporarily
immobilized by a nonlethal charge of
electricity, a Fort Worth police lieu·

tenant put the lesson to use.
ll. Ed Daniels fired the Advanced
Taser M26 at a combative 30-yearold man threatening suicide late
Monday at his family's northwest
Fort Worth home, said It. Duane
Paul, a police spokesman.

The officers then sulxiued the man,
who was taken to John Peter Smith

Hospital for psychiatric evaluation .
It was the fIrst time the Taser was
used by Fort Worth police.
Family members called police to
the home in the 10100 block of Buffalo Grove Road about )J:03 p.m., saying the man was tearing up the home
and threatening to kill himself. They
also told officers the man would
probably fight officers.
The officers called Daniels after
seeing the man clutching two butcher knives, one to his stomach, before
he slammed a door in their faces,
Paul said.
When officers went into the
house, the man was holding a knife
in one hand and a telephone in the
other. When he refused to drop the
knife, Daniels fired the Taser at the
+ man, Paul said.
TIle so-called stun gun reduces the
possibility of injury to suspects and
officers at crime scenes, police say.