Original Article Oct 26, 1:31 AM EDT Police: California man dies after being shot with stun gun SAN LEANDRO, Calif. (AP) -- A 33-year-old man died last week after he resisted arrest and was shot with a Taser gun by San Leandro police officers, authorities said Tuesday. Jose Maravilla Perez, of Dublin, may have been under the influence of drugs when he was shot with the stun gun last Thursday night, San Leandro police Lt. Marc DeCoulode said. Perez was shot multiple times with the stun guns as police tried to arrest him for allegedly violating the terms of a restraining order. Perez was eventually taken to the San Leandro jail, where he once again fought with police after they released him from a straitjacketlike device, DeCoulode said. An officer fired another Taser shot, police said, and Perez became "nonresponsive." Perez died at Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley later Thursday night. "The officers never want to see a contact end in an injury, much less a death, but sometimes these things happen when you're trying to deal with very violent people," DeCoulode said. But Perez's family said the response was excessive. "The police are supposed to protect us," Perez's sister, Angelica Perez, 30, told the San Francisco Chronicle. "How can we trust somebody who is hurting us and causing death?" The Alameda County coroner's office has completed an autopsy but is awaiting the results of toxicology tests to determine whether the Taser, a medical condition or drug use led to Perez's death. Since 2001, more than 140 people across the nation have died after being stunned with the device, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, but only one death has been directly attributed to Taser use. The Taser stun guns are manufactured by Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Taser International Inc.