A 95-year-old Australian woman died on Wednesday, a week after a police officer tasered her at a nursing home as she approached him with a walker brandishing a kitchen knife.
Claire Knowland, who suffers from dementia, was hospitalized in Cooma, New South Wales, Australia after she fractured her skull in a fall on May 17 when officer Christian White shocked her with a Taser branded stun gun. in a tragedy that shook the country.
Police announced the death of the elderly woman just hours after it was learned that White had been ordered to appear in court on July 5 to answer charges of reckless grievous bodily harm, assault causing actual bodily harm and simple assault. The charges he is targeting now have to be aggravated following the death of Claire Knowland.