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Autopsy inconclusive in man's death

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Jan. 7, 2011, 10:26 p.m. CT

Pathologists have not determined what killed a man who died Wednesday after police shocked him with a stun gun, according to preliminary autopsy results released Friday.

Kelly Wayne Sinclair, 41, died about 10 p.m. Wednesday after Amarillo police discharged a Taser while trying to subdue him.

Suicide threats led Sinclair's father to call police to the family home in the 600 block of South Vernon Street, police said.

"Preliminary autopsy results on Kelly Sinclair are listed as undetermined pending toxicology and microscopic studies," said Lt. Gary Trupe of the Potter-Randall Special Crimes Unit. Narcotics were found in Sinclair's system, but those results must be confirmed, he said.

Sinclair was holding a butcher knife to his throat, and one officer used the Taser on him for more than five seconds, but he struggled with officers, police said.

After they turned the device off, officers realized Sinclair was not breathing, called for an ambulance and began CPR, Trupe said.

Sinclair was pronounced dead by doctors at Northwest Texas Hospital.