William R. Bumbrey III

Less-than-lethal force

Police approached Bumbrey on the platform of a transit station in connection with a nearby shoplifting incident. Bumbrey had recently moved back to the area from South Carolina in such poor physical and psychological shape that police had released him to a hospital on similar charges a few days before. Officers tasered him when he resisted, he had an unspecified medical emergency, and died at the scene.