TASER Used by a Georgia Woman to Aid Officer in Distress

Shortly after an Atlanta woman received a TASER gun as a gift she was able to put it to good use. She was driving with her mother to a Walmart store in Lithonia when she saw a DeKalb County police officer struggling with a suspect.

The woman instructed her mother to pull over so that they could help. She reached into her diaper bag to retrieve the TASER gun. As onlookers gathered around the altercation, the woman asked the police officer if he wanted her to use her brandished TASER gun.

When the police officer confirmed that he would like assistance the woman shot the TASER gun towards the suspect’s arms and legs. The police officer had been disabled by the suspect when the suspect rubbed pepper spray into the police officer’s face and eyes and took away the police officer’s radio.

The woman used the TASER gun to disable the suspect long enough for the police officer to recover from the attacks and be in a position to fight back. Soon afterwards a security guard came to help subdue the man.

The woman doesn’t think of herself as a hero, simply as a bystander doing the right thing. She said of the police officer, “He’s brave. He did his best to keep his attacker from getting his gun. He handled the situation very well. I was just glad I could help him.”

The woman’s quick thinking and timely intervention prevented further injury and/or death in a high stakes police situation. The TASER gun was, indeed, a timely present!