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OMAHA — Three of four Omaha police officers who were fired for their involvement in the stun gun-related death of a mentally ill Oklahoma man in 2017 have been reinstated, police and union officials said Thursday.

However, the arbitration panel upheld the firing of the fourth former officer, Scotty Payne, the Omaha Police Department and the Omaha Police Officers’ Association said in a joint statement.

Payne was acquitted in 2018 of second-degree assault and use of a weapon in the June 5, 2017, death of 29-year-old Zachary Bearheels.

Payne and the three other officers were called to an Omaha convenience store because Bearheels was refusing to leave. He had been wandering Omaha streets after being kicked off a bus headed to Oklahoma.

Police cruiser video shows Payne using a stun gun to repeatedly shock Bearheels and Officer Ryan McClarty punching the man. Some of the blows came after Bearheels was on the ground and not resisting. The two other officers did not assault Bearheels, but did not intervene on his behalf. An autopsy determined Bearheels didn’t die directly from the shocks but from excited delirium.