Authorities in Bowling Green, Kentucky Reviewing Death After Stun Gun Used on Man

Authorities in Bowling Green, Kentucky Reviewing Death After Stun Gun Used on Man
A stun gun in a file photo. (Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images)
The Associated Press
3/14/2016
Updated:
3/14/2016

BOWLING GREEN, Ky.—A coroner says a man who died after officers used a stun gun on him when he became combative after a weekend rollover crash suffered blunt-force trauma from the crash.

Warren County Coroner Kevin Kirby said on Monday that 52-year-old Michael Roll of Bowling Green suffered injuries consistent with the crash, but a cause of death won’t be released until toxicology results are back in two or three weeks.

State Police Trooper B.J. Eaton said previously that two state police troopers and a local sheriff’s deputy found Roll’s vehicle overturned Saturday night on William Natcher Parkway near Bowling Green. Eaton says Roll appeared intoxicated and became combative with officers, who shot him with a stun gun, rendering him unconscious.

Eaton said both Roll and the officers involved were white.