Mom: Cops had no reason to tase

Published November 20, 2007 5:00am ET



Her son never should have been shocked and didn?t have to die, says the mother of the sixth Marylander killed this year by a police stun gun.

“From what I?ve been told, he didn?t do anything to provoke anyone,” said Tanya Thomas, mother of Jerrell Grey, 20, who died early Saturday morning after being shocked a by a Frederick County sheriff?s deputy trying to break up a fight.

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