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Lashawn Thompson, 35, died on Sept. 13, 2022, at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, where he was found in a cell “eaten alive” by bedbugs and other insects, according to his family.
Attorney Michael Harper holds a photo of Lashawn Thompson’s cell in the Fulton County, Ga., Jail at a news conference addressing the results of an independent autopsy determining the cause of ...
LaShawn Thompson, 35, died at the Fulton County Jail in Georgia after being eaten alive by insects and bed bugs, his family’s attorney told USA TODAY.
Thompson’s death drew public attention after attorneys for his family released photos of his face and body covered in insects. In August 2023, Thompson’s family reached a settlement with ...
The jail received media attention from the August 24, 2023 mug shot booking of former president Donald Trump. [8] In August 2023, the Fulton County Board of Commissioners approved plans to find the funding for a new $1.7 billion facility to replace the Fulton County Jail. [9] The new facility is planned to have a 4,500 bed capacity. [10]
Lashawn Thompson, 35, died in September, three months after he was booked into the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta. ... with the family of a man who died in a bedbug-infested cell in the county jail ...
The family of Lashawn Thompson, who died in September while incarcerated at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, has reached a $4 million settlement with the county, said Preston Thompson, chief of ...
The jail cell where Lashawn Thompson was found dead | Michael Harper. Two years after a mentally ill man died malnourished and covered in insects in Atlanta's Fulton County Jail, a Justice ...