A 53-year-old man who died while in Wolcott police custody on Halloween in 2023 died by suicide rather than use of force when police deployed stun guns, according to a report the Office of the Inspector General released on Friday afternoon.
Robert Scott Brown died at 5:04 a.m. on Oct. 31, 2023, while in police custody and the Office of the Inspector General conducted an investigation.
Officers responded to Brown’s home on Tyrell Drive at 3:43 a.m. that morning after getting a report that a man was having a psychiatric issue and had broken a window…