A woman believed to be from Kennedale and with a history of mental problems died Tuesday after she was detained by a constable trying to get her committed for a mental evaluation, according to a WFAA-TV (Channel 8) report. {{more:[read more]}}
She was reported to been wandering in a field in an unincorporated part of Tarrant County where she was having delusions.Two deputy constables were involved in trying to locate her. When the first could not find her a second was send out. He found her and was trying to take her in for a mental evaluation when she became confrontational and threatened the deputy with a log.
According to witnesses she was tasered twice by the deputy but was alert when she went by ambulance to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth.
She died shortly thereafter in the hospital.The cause of death is unknown at this time. But the Texas Rangers have been called in to investigate since it was an in-custody involved death.See more of the information that WFAA reported.
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