A 95-year-old resident of an Illinois nursing home died early Saturday, hours after being shocked with a Taser and bean bag rounds in a confrontation with police.
Authorities said John Wrana was a resident at Victory Centre of Park Forest, on the 100 block of South Main Street in the south suburb. He was threatening paramedics and staff with a cane and a metal shoehorn when police arrived at the complex, they said.
Police said they struck him with a Taser and bean bag rounds after he threatened officers with a 12-inch butcher knife.
Wrana was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center, where he later died.
A cause of death was not released by Saturday evening.
(Correction: This article, originally published July 27, 2013, misspelled the victim's last name, based on incorrect information provided by police and the medical examiner's office.)
