Overview
- Carabinieri responded around 8:40 a.m. to a reported domestic dispute on via Nicola Fornelli in Chiaia, where a 35-year-old man died in an ambulance after officers used a taser to subdue him.
- Investigators say the man, described as naked and in an altered state, resisted as officers issued warnings, used pepper spray, and then deployed the stun gun before handing him to 118 medics.
- The on-duty prosecutor seized the body and had it transferred to the Policlinico mortuary, with autopsy and toxicology results pending to establish medical causation.
- Carabinieri state the device was used according to legal procedures, and a report to prosecutors indicates a single discharge after other attempts to calm the man failed.
- Local reporting identified the deceased as Antony Ihaza Ehogonoh, 35, and the case has renewed political calls to suspend or review taser use following other recent deaths under investigation.