A man arrested by Alabama police died shortly after he was
pepper-sprayed, and investigators are trying to figure out why.
A Tuscaloosa
resident called police Friday night after spotting Anthony Dewayne Ware, 35,
sitting on the front porch of a home with a gun, police said.
"Mr. Ware
had an active warrant that had been verified for attempting to elude
police," Tuscaloosa police Assistant Chief Ronnie Dunn said.
When officers
arrived, police said, Ware fled.
"Officers
chased him into the woods, and when the officers caught up to him, he resisted
arrest," Dunn said.
Police
pepper-sprayed Ware, who continued struggling but was eventually handcuffed,
Dunn said. But while officers were walking out of the woods with him, Ware
collapsed.
Officers
performed CPR and called for medical help, police said. But after arriving at a
local hospital, Ware was pronounced dead.
Investigators
from inside and outside the Tuscaloosa Police Department have launched a probe
into the death.
Dunn said the
incident was captured on video, which will be released to the public "as
soon as the Tuscaloosa County homicide investigators say it can be released
without hindering the ongoing investigation."
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