Nude student gets tazed and tackled
Disoriented man roams around in Love Library
By Alana Seifi, Staff Writer
A nude student was tackled and tazed by campus police in Love Library Wednesday night.
Campus police received a call from the convenience store that a man was undressing and kicking things in the Aztec Market, Lt. Sonny Cavarlez said.
Erin Lynn, an employee of the store, said the man took off all of his clothes in the store, poured coffee over his head and then ran headfirst into the window of the store.
He fell back and ran into the window for a second time, she said.
The man then left the convenience store naked and walked to the library. He walked down the stairs of the Love Library dome entrance, when an off-duty officer tackled him by the neck.
Four police officers, one off-duty, tried to wrestle the man on the ground but were not able to hold him down with their hands, Cavarlez said.
"He was fighting so hard, we had to taze him three times," Cavarlez, who gave the order to taze the man, said.
Tazer guns, which have about 75,000 volts of electricity, temporarily render the capacity of the person by causing muscles to lock up.
"He was sweating profusely," Cavarlez said.
The hot coffee that he poured on himself at the convenience store made him slippery and hard to tackle, Cavarlez said after the incident.
"As I started to go toward him, he charged back away from me and took a swing at me," he said.
The incident occurred between the security monitors and research computers on the first floor of the library.
Police initially suspected the man was on drugs, but when he was taken to Mercy Hospital for a complete toxicology exam, the police report showed no illicit drugs in his body, Cavarlez said.
"I'm on race," the naked man said while lying on the ground. "Class, gender. I'm a homo," he added.
When one of the lieutenants asked him his name, he said, "Heather Will." When asked where he lived, he said, "I live here. San Diego State."
"He told us he smoked marijuana and some other drugs. He consistently commented that he was a homosexual," Cavarlez said.
English graduate student Jose Medrano was reading right in front of the scene.
"He looked like he was out of it. Maybe he wasn't on anything. Maybe he was just psyched for something," he said.
The student had blood on his forehead, which police believe to have been from him running into the glass windows at the convenience store.
"I just thought that was ridiculous how many times they shocked him and how long, and how they were just talking about it right in front of him. That was very inappropriate, unprofessional to me," marketing senior Michelle Castro said.
The report described the white male as 6 feet 1 inch tall, with dark hair and a thin build. His name is not being released because he was not arrested.
"No criminal charges are being filed against him because he was not in control of his mental faculties, even though one of the officers was hurt," Cavarlez said.
The student's mother told police they had a falling out, a big argument and he was going to drop his classes. Police filed a mental evaluation report and referred him to Counseling and Psychological Services.
"I just feel sorry for the person. I hope whatever problem he has with his family or personally, that it's going to be rectified. This university, because he is a student, will do everything that we can to provide the help," Cavarlez said.
Disoriented man roams around in Love Library
By Alana Seifi, Staff Writer
A nude student was tackled and tazed by campus police in Love Library Wednesday night.
Campus police received a call from the convenience store that a man was undressing and kicking things in the Aztec Market, Lt. Sonny Cavarlez said.
Erin Lynn, an employee of the store, said the man took off all of his clothes in the store, poured coffee over his head and then ran headfirst into the window of the store.
He fell back and ran into the window for a second time, she said.
The man then left the convenience store naked and walked to the library. He walked down the stairs of the Love Library dome entrance, when an off-duty officer tackled him by the neck.
Four police officers, one off-duty, tried to wrestle the man on the ground but were not able to hold him down with their hands, Cavarlez said.
"He was fighting so hard, we had to taze him three times," Cavarlez, who gave the order to taze the man, said.
Tazer guns, which have about 75,000 volts of electricity, temporarily render the capacity of the person by causing muscles to lock up.
"He was sweating profusely," Cavarlez said.
The hot coffee that he poured on himself at the convenience store made him slippery and hard to tackle, Cavarlez said after the incident.
"As I started to go toward him, he charged back away from me and took a swing at me," he said.
The incident occurred between the security monitors and research computers on the first floor of the library.
Police initially suspected the man was on drugs, but when he was taken to Mercy Hospital for a complete toxicology exam, the police report showed no illicit drugs in his body, Cavarlez said.
"I'm on race," the naked man said while lying on the ground. "Class, gender. I'm a homo," he added.
When one of the lieutenants asked him his name, he said, "Heather Will." When asked where he lived, he said, "I live here. San Diego State."
"He told us he smoked marijuana and some other drugs. He consistently commented that he was a homosexual," Cavarlez said.
English graduate student Jose Medrano was reading right in front of the scene.
"He looked like he was out of it. Maybe he wasn't on anything. Maybe he was just psyched for something," he said.
The student had blood on his forehead, which police believe to have been from him running into the glass windows at the convenience store.
"I just thought that was ridiculous how many times they shocked him and how long, and how they were just talking about it right in front of him. That was very inappropriate, unprofessional to me," marketing senior Michelle Castro said.
The report described the white male as 6 feet 1 inch tall, with dark hair and a thin build. His name is not being released because he was not arrested.
"No criminal charges are being filed against him because he was not in control of his mental faculties, even though one of the officers was hurt," Cavarlez said.
The student's mother told police they had a falling out, a big argument and he was going to drop his classes. Police filed a mental evaluation report and referred him to Counseling and Psychological Services.
"I just feel sorry for the person. I hope whatever problem he has with his family or personally, that it's going to be rectified. This university, because he is a student, will do everything that we can to provide the help," Cavarlez said.
