CHARLESTON, Mo. (AP) — A wrongful-death lawsuit filed against a detention center in southeastern Missouri says jailers did not offer proper medical care for a woman during an overdose and let her die in her cell.
The Southeast Missourian reports the suit was filed on behalf of the woman’s two children by their father, Devin Arnold, in U.S. District Court in Cape Girardeau on May 2 and amended May 5.
It alleges jailers at the Mississippi County Detention Center failed to provide adequate medical care to 21-year-old Somer Nunnally. Coroner Terry Parker rules Nunnally died from mixed-drug intoxication.
Then-detention officer and current jail administrator Sally Gammons Yanez, who was listed in the suit, said Monday she hasn’t been served papers about the suit yet.