A Culpeper man who police say was intoxicated and resisting arrest died Monday, several hours after an officer shot him with a Taser.
According to Maj. Chris Settle, an unidentified officer on patrol in the Belle Avenue section of Culpeper around 8 p.m. Sunday saw 30-year-old Dominick R. Wise “acting erratically by walking in circles in the middle of the street.”
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