Peru Police Chief Steve Hoover recommended to the Peru Public Board of Works that Officer Gregory Martin be terminated after an internal investigation into the incident was completed.
Officers reported Howard did not listen to several of their commands, so one of them fired a stun gun at him. The report said officers "Tased" Howard three times despite, according to his wife, being told that he has advanced stage Alzheimer’s and cannot interpret or follow orders.
Fox59 spoke with Howard’s wife of 45 years, Virginia Howard, following the incident. She said she was getting ready to take her husband out for a Father’s Day, when she got the call saying he was in the hospital. When she arrived to the hospital, she said she found her husband badly bruised and bleeding in the emergency room. Additionally, she reported some of the skin on Howard’s left hand was torn by the handcuffs officers used.
Officer Martin has been with the police force for seven years.
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