Police shelve Tasers for now after another suspect dies

Police shelve Tasers for now after another suspect dies: "(By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and Gary L. Wright, gwright@charlotteobserver.com; cwootson@charlotteobserver.com) The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is taking all of its Tasers off the streets for as many as 45 days, after a suspect died when he was shocked by an officer's X26 Taser at a Lynx light rail station.

Police say Lareko Williams, 21, was beating and choking a woman when confronted by Officer Michael Forbes at the station on Woodlawn Road around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday. Williams was pronounced dead about an hour later."