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11. Kevin Greeson

Mon May 27, 2024, 09:37 PM

May 2024

Kevin Greeson, a 55-year-old man from Athens, Alabama.

Posts circulating on Twitter and Facebook claim that Greeson suffered a heart attack after leaving a taser in his pants and accidentally triggering it when he was attempting to steal a portrait in the Capitol.

"He repeatedly tased himself in the scrotum until he suffered a fatal heart attack," wrote one Twitter user, whose post garnered more than 4,000 retweets and 15,000 likes.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/01/13/fact-check-alabama-man-capitol-riot-died-heart-attack/6624232002/

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