He was a Marine veteran and correction officer. At 68 he suffered from a chronic heart condition and wore a pendant that could signal for help in case of a medical emergency. He accidentally set off the pendant in his sleep and the medical alert company, LifeAid, phoned police to request a welfare check. He was surprised when about 5am an armed police squad showed up outside his apartment and reportedly demanded to be let in, despite his assurance that he was OK. He grew increasingly agitated as cops allegedly swarmed his home. The LifeAid dispatcher, who was able to hear every word of the commotion through the audiobox, tried to cancel the call for police assistance, but the recording reveals that a police officer replied, “We don’t need any mediators”. His niece who lived in an apartment upstairs, came down and tried to talk with police, but she was ignored. Her uncle sounded scared and was begging the police through the door to be left alone. At least one officer was recorded on tape taunting him and using racial slurs, just before they broke down his door. A security camera in the hall of the building captured part of the events and shows him standing inside his apartment, wearing only boxer shorts, with his arms at his side and his hands empty. The video tape also reveals that once the police entered his apartment, they made no commands for him to raise his hands or to lay down on the bed, but instead they immediately moved toward him with a taser gun. By the time the rapidly escalating conflict was over, police had used a stun gun to zap a 68 year old man with a known heart condition and shot at him with a beanbag gun and fired 2 bullets into his chest. He died at White Plains Hospital shortly after the early morning clash.