Panama City, Florida — Andrew Grande better known to his gay porn fans as Dustin Michaels, died during the early morning hours of Saturday, Dec. 12, when police in Panama City, Fl., tasered him while attempting to arrest him.
WJHG-TV reports: Michaels "Just after 2AM Friday deputies responded to a disturbance call at the Executive Inn on front beach road. They say Grande pushed a female friend. A camera crew from TruTV. arrived with deputies and filmed the events of the call. One of the deputies tried to arrest him they say he resisted and stuffed something in his mouth. That's when at least one of the deputies shot him with a taser.
The graphic video shows Grande fighting back as officers wrestled him to the ground and tried to handcuff him. It shows one of the officers shooting Grande with a taser gun, and it shows Grande immediately beginning to choke, reaching down his own throat to try and dislodge the bag and frantically trying to signal his predicament to the officers.
The video also shows the officers trying desperately to help, administering the Heimlich manuever and doing anything else they could. But to no avail. Grande was taken by ambulance and was pronounced dead at Bay Medical Center.
—Tim Moran
