un necessary suicide

A police officer committed suicide after he inadvertantly killed a man with a taser. The assailant was attempting to flea police capture by running through his 3 story apartment building and standing in the window sill trying to repel the officers with an eight foot long flourescent lightbulb. Lieutenant Pigot eventually got frustrated and ordered officer Moralis to stun the man. The result of the taser completely paralyzed the man and fell to his death. As a result, the lieutenant who ordered the tase was demoted drastically,because under law you cant order a tase if theres a possibility of the assailent falling from deathly heights. Meanwhile the officer which actually pulled the trigger couldnt bear what he had done and committed suicide an hour before the man's funeral was held. This is very tragic, mostly because the officer committed suicide when he really had no choice but to follow his lieutenants orders. If you would like to read this article, check it out here: http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/10/02/taser.officer.dead.ap/index.html