TUCUMCARI, N.M. — Authorities say a teenage girl is recovering at an Albuquerque hospital after being shot in the head with a Taser dart by Tucumcari’s police chief.
Stacy Akin said she and her 14-year-old daughter were arguing over a cellphone Thursday, and she drove her daughter to the Tucumcari Police Department to seek help.
The girl ran off and was later found at a park by Chief Roger Hatcher. Hatcher said he called to her, but she ran across a street. Hatcher said he tried to catch up to the girl by foot but couldn’t, and believes he had no other option than to fire a Taser dart to stop her.
Akin said the dart entered her daughter’s skull and that she remains in pediatric intensive care after undergoing surgery Friday morning at University of New Mexico hospital.
