EVERETT, Wash. (AP) - The family of an inmate who died in the Snohomish County Jail has filed a lawsuit claiming he was mistreated by jail staff.
Seattlepi.com reports (https://bit.ly/1KoGQaP ) that Bill Williams was agitated and uncooperative when he arrived at the jail on Sept. 14, 2012.
He had been arrested for shoplifting beer and cigarettes from a convenience store. Seventeen minutes later, he was dead.
His family claims jail staff was unnecessarily violent toward Williams.
Investigators with the county medical examiner’s office ruled Williams’ death a homicide, finding that injuries sustained at the jail stopped his heart.
Williams was one of a string of deaths at the county jail, and his family is now one of several to sue Snohomish County.
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Information from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, https://www.seattlepi.com/
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