A 66-year-old Delaware woman is accused of using a Taser on a teen boy at a playground last month.
The 14-year-old boy was playing in a park with his friends near the Green Valley Townhouses on Lynn Drive in Newark, Delaware, back on May 20. A woman was walking her dog when she heard the teen yelling at his friend, investigators said. The woman then returned without her dog about 30 minutes later carrying a black object in her hands, investigators said.
She approached the 14-year-old boy who was on the swing-set and asked him a question, according to police. Moments after the teen replied, the woman Tased him in the back, police said. The teen and his friends as well as the woman then fled the scene, according to investigators.On June 1, an officer conducting a property check in the area of the Green Valley Townhouses spotted a woman who matched the description given by the teen, police said.
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