Utah State Capitol: Man Hit With Taser After Driving Truck Onto Steps

Utah State Capitol: Man Hit With Taser After Driving Truck Onto Steps
Jack Phillips
10/22/2013
Updated:
8/1/2015

A man was subdued by police and Tased when he drove his truck onto the Utah State Captiol steps in Salt Lake City, according to reports.

Paul Murphy, the Utah Attorney General’s Director of Communications, posted images on Twitter, showing the man’s truck.

“The tazed man arrived in this truck and parked next to the west entrance of the #Utah Capitol,” he wrote.

He later wrote that the man was loaded into an ambulance afterwards.

“[M]an drives up to Capitol building and has to be tased after outburst,” Ryan Bruckman, Deputy Communications Director at Utah Attorney General’s Office, wrote on Twitter.

Fox-13 reported that state officers used a stun gun on the man.

On Twitter, a witness wrote: “I’m not certain. From our office you could only hear someone being loud and the sound of a taser being fired.”

Other details were not immediately available.

 

Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter with 15 years experience who started as a local New York City reporter. Having joined The Epoch Times' news team in 2009, Jack was born and raised near Modesto in California's Central Valley. Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/jackphillips5
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