Logs confirm man killed in Coweta County tased 15 times by cops

Two hours earlier, his mother called 911 frantically from inside the jeep with Sherman and his fiance. She cried on the phone, saying she feared her son would kill them all if they didn’t get help quickly.

She said her son had "ingested some kind of drug" and was suffering from a psychotic break, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution previously reported.

In the 9:07 p.m. call made by Mary Ann Sherman, she told the 911 operator that her son was “crazy, out on some kind of drugs.” She later said he had smoked “spice,” a type of synthetic marijuana.

“It messed his brain up,” she said.

“He’s hallucinating; we need help,” Mary Ann Sherman pleaded with the operator. “He’s going to kill us all if we don’t get help.”

During the 10 minute call, which was punctuated by the sounds of several people screaming, she said her son had already bitten his girlfriend “really, really bad” and needed to go to a mental institution.

The 911 call ended just as two patrol cars pulled in behind the rental car the family was driving.

When deputies arrived, they reportedly struggled with Sherman while attempting to subdue him.

Taser logs from the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office show two police officers, each armed with a taser gun, tased Sherman a total of 15 times.

The official, immediate cause of death, acording to the death certificate is “Sudden death during an altercation with law enforcement with several trigger pulls of an electronic device, prone positioning on the floor of a moto vehicle and compression of the torso by the body weight of another individual.”

Atlanta attorney L. Chris Stewart, who is representing the family, said even though Sherman was handcuffed during the incident, deputies applied so much pressure to his torso with their knees, that the force, along with repeated use of a Taser led to his death.