Taser International, Lancaster-area police sued in death of Vietnam veteran
Veteran's children say father died after multiple stuns
June 18, 2012
By Saranac Hale Spencer
The Legal Intelligencer
Two of Robert A. Neill's children have filed suit in federal court almost two years after their father, a 61-year-old Vietnam veteran who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, died after being "stunned" multiple times by a Taser.
Though their lawyer, Stewart Eisenberg of Eisenberg Rothweiler Winkler Eisenberg & Jeck, estimated there have been dozens of deaths related Taser use nationwide, this is the first suit of its kind in Pennsylvania.
Nicole and Robert Neill, both from Harrisburg, sat subdued in their lawyer's Philadelphia office as they introduced their case to the media after filing a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania last week.
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