An 85-year-old Aberdeen man was TASERed by police and taken to Harford Memorial Hospital on Sept. 28 after threatening his wife with a rifle.

Police responded to a home in the 500 block of Cornell Street, where a woman said her husband, William Brown, came into the family room with a rifle in his hand after he grew angry during an argument they were having, according to charging documents.

While en route to the scene, at about 3:16 a.m., an officer saw a tan Chevy truck parked at Ohio and Baltimore streets that the woman identified as her husband's vehicle.

The officer displayed his patrol rifle and called for additional units.

The suspect had his hands raised in the vehicle, and four officers set up a perimeter displaying guns.

One of the officers believed the suspect had several guns in the vehicle.

The suspect refused to open his truck door or put his window down. An officer then broke the window while another deployed her TASER, striking the suspect in the chest.

They pulled the suspect from the vehicle, where he was taken to the ground and handcuffed.

He was taken to Harford Memorial Hospital to be treated for laceration and elevated blood sugar level.

Police confiscated his guns, including a rifle, two shotguns and an air gun.

Brown was charged with second-degree assault, obstructing and hindering law enforcement, resisting arrest, failing to obey a reasonable and lawful order and disturbing the peace.