One year after her son, Kevin Ray Omas, died as a result of three Taser shots, at the hands of Euliss police, Ronda Short has filed a wrongful-death suit against six officers from the small Texas town as well as Taser International.
The suit being brought forth against Taser International is more in line with something that would be handled by a product liability attorney. The plaintiff is accusing the company of deceptively marketing the weapon, which delivers a 50,000-volt charge, as non-lethal. This will be the third such case in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area since 2004.
It seems as if the real evil-doers in this incident were the Euliss police, who are known to use excessive force (they used a Taser on a man in diabetic shock in February) and who also failed to give Kevin Ray Omas any assistance after the Taser shocks were administered.
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Kevin was my older cousin. I was living in Colorado at the time. To know that I will never see him again because a Policeman misused his authority is not right. You don't need that much force to take down a 250lb teenager.
