Jeffrey
Turner stood in the street behind the closed Toledo Museum of
Art for nearly 40 minutes before a security guard called police. Almost
four hours after the 41-year-old was approached by police on a
suspicious-person call Monday night from the museum, he was dead. City
police shocked Turner five times with a Taser - a gun that
administers 50,000 volts of electricity to subdue a person - after he
refused to identify himself and did not comply with police
instructions.Police were sent to the museum on Monroe Street after
receiving a call about 5:30 p.m. from a security guard about a man
standing on Grove Place near the museum's rear entrance, said Jordan
Rundgren, a museum spokesman. Toledo police Officers Douglas Lewis and
Brian Young reported that they asked Turner for his identification.
When he said he did not have any, they asked him to move to their car
so they could conduct a standard pat search for weapons for officer
safety. Turner refused, police said. The officers grabbed Turner's arms
and took him to their car, where they told him to put his hands on the
trunk. He refused, pulled away, and swung elbows at both officers,
police said. Despite warnings they were going to shock him with a
Taser, the officers reported that Turner continued wrestling and
struggling with them. Turner was shocked five separate times, each a
five-second jolt, after he repeatedly refused to comply with police and
kicked them, police said. [more] and [more]
Pictured Above: Shawn Turner, with a photo of his brother, Jeffrey Turner, and his brother’s grandchild, says he and his family want answers.
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