No charges in stun-gun death

Five Hagerstown police officers involved in the stungun-related death of a home invasion suspect won’t be criminally charged, authorities said, citing an autopsy report’s finding that he died of drug-induced “excited delirium in the setting of police restraint.”

The state medical examiner’s office said it couldn’t determine the manner of Darrell Lawrence Brown’s death — such as homicide, suicide or accident — after he was shocked twice by a Taser on the night of April 16. But Washington County State’s Atty. Charles Strong said evidence pointed to drugs as a significant or primary factor in his death.