DRUGS, NOT TASER, KILLED MAN

KINGSTON - Ontario's coroner said yesterday a man who died just hours
after being shot with a Taser gun by police was killed by a drug overdose.

"I can state categorically that the Taser did not play any role
whatsoever in his death," Dr. Jim Cairns, Ontario's deputy chief
coroner, said in a release.

The death of Samuel Truscott, 43, "was due solely to a drug overdose,"
Dr. Cairns said.

The Special Investigations Unit had assigned investigators to look
into Mr. Truscott's death Sunday morning.

"The Taser worked appropriately," Dr. Cairns said following
yesterday's autopsy in Toronto.

Mr. Truscott suffered a seizure and died a couple of hours later in
Kingston General Hospital.

Last month, police confirmed that a man in Vancouver was the fifth
person in Canada to die after receiving a shock from a police Taser
gun.