Four days after he was stunned by police Tasers, doctors plan to bring Jason Schmidt out of a coma today.

His parents, Bill Schmidt and Lorrie McGee, will be by his side, though they weren't allowed into his room until yesterday.

On Friday, Jason Schmidt was stunned four times by police officers in Brighton Heights and charged with criminal trespassing, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. As he lay in critical condition, strapped to an Allegheny General Hospital bed, all visitors were barred from his room while two city police officers guarded it.

Wanting desperately to see his son, Mr. Schmidt tried every possible recourse. He spoke to brass at the Zone 1 police station, tried to file a motion in court, took his case to the news media and even went to county Chief Executive Dan Onorato's house and spoke to him.

"You've gotta see this is the most callous, inhumane thing you could do to somebody to deal with his only son," Mr. Schmidt said.

Yesterday afternoon, after more than two days of pleading, police granted his wish. Still, only Jason Schmidt's parents are allowed in the room and the officers and restraints remain in place.

Considering the charges, Bill Schmidt thinks the whole thing is overkill.

"We're not talking about my dog here, a pit bull or something. He did nothing aggressive."

The incident happened Friday afternoon, when Jason Schmidt, 29, of Observatory Hill, arrived at the house of Andrew Balint. He walked in the open front door as Mr. Balint was shampooing his carpet.

Almost immediately, Mr. Balint could see that something was wrong with his friend of 20 years. Mr. Schmidt was acting erratically, and Mr. Balint assumed his friend was on drugs.

Then Mr. Schmidt sat down on the living room couch and started having a seizure. Mr. Balint called 911.

As Mr. Balint spoke to emergency dispatchers, Mr. Schmidt came out of the seizure but had little control of his body and could barely speak. Mr. Balint took Mr. Schmidt out to the front porch, partly to get him away from Mr. Balint's young son.

Two police officers arrived before an ambulance did, Mr. Balint said. Officer Kim Stanley, according to a criminal complaint, observed the two men "struggling." Not attempting another form of restraint, she announced her intention to fire her Taser. After Mr. Balint stepped out of the way, Officer Stanley stunned Mr. Schmidt.

Two officers tried to handcuff him, but Mr. Schmidt refused, according to the complaint, and tried to flee the porch. He was stunned a second time by Officer Stanley, and as he writhed free of the Taser wires on the ground, he was stunned simultaneously by Officer Stanley and Officer Holly Murphy.

"They weren't beating him up or nothing, but the situation could have been handled differently," Mr. Balint said.

"They were hitting him with the Taser, and he wasn't fighting. He was just trying to get back up. He didn't understand the situation. Were they in the wrong? I don't know."

Officers Stanley and Murphy could not be reached for comment yesterday. Cmdr. RaShall Brackney, who supervises the officers, referred inquiries to Assistant Chief Regina McDonald, who did not return calls.

Assistant Chief McDonald issued a statement saying that Mr. Schmidt, once he arrived at Allegheny General, required eight hospital personnel to restrain him. Due to his condition, doctors put Mr. Schmidt in a medically-induced coma as part of his treatment, his father said.

In the Aug. 5 death of Andre Thomas, of Swissvale, officers also used a Taser to subdue Mr. Thomas, and a toxicology report has not been finalized.

Mr. Schmidt, a Perry High School graduate, was trying to get into the insurance business, his father said. Bill Schmidt, who owns Commodore Cafe in Observatory Hill, also was getting Jason Schmidt to do some work for him.

Mr. Balint said he knew Jason Schmidt used cocaine occasionally, out at bars or clubs, but that he didn't seem to have a serious problem with the drug, and it would be odd for him to be high during the day.

Jason Schmidt has a 2-year-old daughter, Sienna, but neither the child nor her mother, Dominique Tomassi, is allowed to see him.

Jason Schmidt's doctors want his parents nearby as they bring him out of the coma so that their voices will have a calming effect on him, his father said.