- WEST PARK, Fla. (AP)
-- A Fort Lauderdale man died after Broward sheriff's deputies shocked
him with a Taser. Officers had been responding to a call about a home invasion
in West Park.
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- The homeowner says 48-year-old Horace Owens broke in
while he was watching television. He says the intruder ran from room to
room yelling, in these words, "Please don't let them kill me."
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- Deputies got Owens outside, but he struggled with them.
He was hit with the electrical shock outside the house. Officers tried
to resuscitate Owens, but he was pronounced dead later at the hospital.
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- Owens is the seventh person to die in South Florida after
being shocked by a Taser since 2002.
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