This sounds like one of about two dozen cases where a schizophrenic person encounters police every year, and in most cases, the individual is tased and subdued, and thereby continues living. Unfortunately, it sounds like in this case the taser didn't work.
I seem to recall a mental health intervenor making this point during the Robert Dziekanski matter - i.e, that tasers save the lives of mentally ill people because they can't reasonably be talked down, and would otherwise have to be shot.
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