CALGARY -- Last night a man died after a confrontation with Brooks RCMP in which he was hit with a Taser at least once.

Sources said Mounties encountered an aggressive man during an investigation into a possible break-in on a residential street in the Lake Bevan area of the town, about 170 km southeast of Calgary, about suppertime.

The man was taken to Brooks hospital in cardiac arrest but efforts to resuscitate him were not successful.

RCMP spokesman Patrick Webb said the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) is looking into the death.

The RCMP have taken a public relations hit in recent months regarding Taser use.

The use of the weapon came under scrutiny following the 2007 death of Robert Dziekanski after he was stunned five times by an RCMP Taser.