On Thursday, Shawnee County commissioners agreed to pay $350,000 to the family of a Lawrence man who died shortly after Shawnee County deputies used a Taser on him at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. in Topeka.

Commissioners voted, 3-0, to settle a wrongful death lawsuit that the family of Walter E. Haake Jr., 59, had filed in U.S. District Court.

Haake died March 29, 2008, after he was shot with a Taser three times when he refused medical help in the plant’s parking lot.

The lawsuit had named deputies Jason Mills and Shayna Johnson, Sheriff Dick Barta and Shawnee County.

Commissioners said they don’t believe the officers involved were at fault. Commissioner Vic Miller said the county settled the case for financial reasons, adding that the county already had spent more than $200,000.