Police use Taser in bizarre incident

Ypsilanti Police used a Taser to subdue a 24-year-old Ypsilanti man who grabbed a woman during a bizarre incident early this morning in the 600 block of Armstrong Court.

Ypsilanti Police Sgt. Deric Gress said police were called to the scene at 4:10 a.m. on a report of a man chasing a woman outside an apartment complex. When police arrived, the man stripped his clothes off. He had what appeared to be a knife in one hand, police said, and he asked police to kill him, then quickly changed the subject.

Officers ordered the man to lie on the ground, but he instead went toward an officer, who fired the stun gun at him. The man fell and let go of what officers had thought was a knife; it turned out to be a large pen. The man pulled one of the Taser probes from his body, then ran toward a female bystander, whom he grabbed. Police ordered the 24-year-old Ypsilanti man to the ground again, but he ran off, so police used the Taser a second time and were able to bring him under to control.

He was taken to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation.

No one was injured.

Stabbing Victim mum on details

A 37-year-old man refused to give Ypsilanti police details of how he was injured after police were called to St. Joseph Mercy Hospital about 2:30 a.m. today.

The man said he had been poked in the eye, but he had been stabbed in the face and lost a lot of blood. Police said the man gave them several locations were he said an unknown person "poked" him. Then they said he refused to talk to them, or seek prosecution.