A Dallas man is dead after a Cobb County police officer used a Taser on him during a response to a hit-and-run call Tuesday evening. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has now taken over the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What’s Happening:<\/strong> State agents are investigating the death of 47-year-old Timothy Lyle Sheats. The deadly tasing happened after a Cobb County officer responded to a traffic accident around 6:10 p.m. on October 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What\u2019s Important:<\/strong> According to the GBI, the officer found Sheats walking in the road. Sheats told the officer he had been shot, but the officer reported seeing no visible injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Police Account:<\/strong> The GBI says Sheats refused to get into a patrol car for safety and began walking into traffic, at one point trying to enter another car. The officer says he used a Taser to gain control of Sheats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What Happens Next:<\/strong> Sheats became unresponsive after he was secured by officers and was later pronounced dead at a hospital. The GBI will give its findings to the Cobb County District Attorney\u2019s Office for review once the investigation is complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Sources:<\/strong> Georgia Bureau of Investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=45]\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Dallas man is dead after a Cobb County police officer used a Taser on him during a response to a hit-and-run call Tuesday evening. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has now taken over the case. What’s Happening: State agents are investigating the death of 47-year-old Timothy Lyle Sheats. The deadly tasing happened after a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":217719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"behind","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[8511,19488,19489],"class_list":["post-234903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-cobb-county-police","tag-taser","tag-use-of-force","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}