Video shows stun gun use on man

ATHENS, Ala. (AP) ? Police video released Wednesday shows that an Alabama mental patient who died after being shot with a stun gun began having breathing difficulties within minutes of receiving the jolt.

The more than nine-minute video from a police body camera shows officers and medical workers trying to calm 49-year-old Randy Joe Nelson at Athens-Limestone Hospital on Feb. 3. The video shows Nelson growing agitated as officers help hold him on a bed for a medical worker.

Nelson is shot in the back with a stun gun and loses consciousness within minutes. With Nelson on the floor, someone asks if he is breathing and someone responds he is turning blue.

Nelson died five days later at another hospital.