A 36-year-old Nigerian, Chinedu Okobi, has died after police in the United States used an electric stun gun to subdue him for allegedly resisting arrest.

Okobi was reportedly running in and out of traffic on 1300 block of El Camino Real in Millbrae on Wednesday afternoon when five San Mateo County Sheriff’s deputies tried to arrest him.

San Mateo County Sheriff’s office said the deceased, a father of one, “immediately assaulted” a deputy who tried to make contact with him, leading to a confrontation.

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Four other deputies helped take Okobi into custody. One of them fired the stun gun, said San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe, whose office is investigating the death with the coroner.

Okobi was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The deputy Okobi allegedly attacked, was also treated at a hospital for unspecified injuries.

“They were attempting to get control of him as he resisted, and during the course of that a Taser was discharged,” said District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.

 “At this point, we’re still investigating how many times.”

The district attorney’s office is trying to find out if any of the other four officers involved in Okobi’s arrest also used a Taser.

Wagstaffe emphasized that Okobi was unarmed.

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“We have no information, no belief in anything of there being any weapon on his part,” he said. “The deceased was not armed, but he stood 6-foot-3 and weighed 330 pounds.” 

All of the deputies who were involved in the confrontation have been placed on paid leave.

The investigation, which will include Okobi’s official cause of death, is expected to take no more than 10 weeks.

Okobi’s Facebook page demonstrates a love for spoken word poetry and includes a link to an album he recently posted on ReverbNation.com described as Christian gospel music.

His artist biography on the site describes him as a “Bay Area native, born to Nigerian parents who became naturalized American citizens.”

The site says he has been writing creatively since age 7 and started recording music at 17. His first album was called “Peace, Love, and Poetry.”

An autopsy of Okobi’s body was expected to be completed Friday, but the findings won’t be released to the public until the district attorney issues a final report, according to Wagstaffe.

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At issue is whether the deputy’s use of a Taser stun gun played a role in Okobi’s death.

If it did, Wagstaffe said, Okobi’s death would be considered a homicide. The next step would be to determine whether officers were justified in their actions.

Wagstaffe was still waiting on Friday for the officers’ attorneys to allow them to be interviewed but said he was confident he could reach a decision on whether they acted lawfully within 10 weeks.

The sheriff’s office declined to comment on the status of the employees involved, but detective Rosemerry Blankswade said the agency planned to release the five names by the end of the week.

In a post on Facebook, his elder sister, Ebele Okobi, said he was struggling with mental issues.

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