{"id":938061,"date":"2026-07-16T04:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T04:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/938061\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T04:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T04:18:20","slug":"family-demands-answers-after-43-year-old-man-dies-following-houston-police-taser-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/938061\/","title":{"rendered":"Family demands answers after 43-year-old man dies following Houston police Taser incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/l6qhdswhhioqhea9.jpg\" alt=\"Family members of man killed after being tased by HPD demanding answers\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/l6qhdswhhioqhea9.jpg\" alt=\"Family members of man killed after being tased by HPD demanding answers\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image\" data-v-6546b402=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><strong>HOUSTON<\/strong> &#8211; The Harris County Medical Examiner has ruled the death of Alejandro Corona Jr. a homicide, months after he died following a Taser deployment by Houston police outside his east Houston home. His family is now demanding accountability, questioning officers&#8217; actions, the delay in CPR and why additional records have not been released.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;There was no reason at all for his life to get taken away,&#8221; said Alejandro&#8217;s niece Abigail Zarco.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Alejandro died after being tased by Houston police in the front yard of his east side home.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;Taking his life over traffic on a bicycle, it doesn&#8217;t make sense,&#8221; said Alejandro&#8217;s sister Abigail Zarco.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to HPD&#8217;s bodycam video, Alejandro was speeding on his bicycle and on the wrong side of the road on April 1 just before 12:45 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;Did they use a radar? Was he really speeding? What was the speed limit he was going,&#8221; asked Alejandro&#8217;s niece Abigail Zarco. &#8220;Was he even posing a threat? What was the cause for you to tase him after he was home?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;As soon as someone turns their back, they are not a threat. From the beginning, my dad was not a threat,&#8221; said Alejandro&#8217;s daughter Alexandra. &#8220;If he had two seizures already, why didn&#8217;t you all think to do the seizure protocol? Put him on his side, make sure he doesn&#8217;t bite his tongue. No, you flipped him flat to where his face was in the dirt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Relatives question why CPR wasn&#8217;t initiated sooner.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Alejandro&#8217;s girlfriend, Natalie Sanchez, can be heard on the video asking why CPR isn&#8217;t being administered and offers to do it herself.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;They waited so long. I was the one who told them to turn him around. I could see his face. He was foaming at the mouth,&#8221; said Natalie. &#8220;They moved him here, but they were holding his face the whole time. \u00a0He had already passed, you could see he was airway gone.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;We want accountability. We want justice and answers,&#8221; said Alexandra. &#8220;That&#8217;s all we are asking for. It shouldn&#8217;t be that hard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Alexandra has filed open records requests to get more videos and reports the city is asking for a ruling from the Texas Attorney General&#8217;s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">When we asked HPD for a response, they referred us to the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mBlkX-ncdrA&amp;rco=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> bodycam video on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Family members of Alejandro Corona Jr., Houston Police Department body camera video<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/organization\/texas-dps\/houston-police\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Police Department<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; The Harris County Medical Examiner has ruled the death of Alejandro Corona Jr. a homicide, months&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":938062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[6082,4345,22287,50,12632,358,23310,52,3187,68],"class_list":["post-938061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-houston","tag-houston-police","tag-news","tag-organization","tag-texas","tag-texas-dps","tag-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116927734132443317","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}